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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also a very precarious idea imo. It makes an easy target for social engineering, targeted marketing, etc.

I assume if a nefarious actor made an instance to sell behavioral data, they would have a field day if every account of a person was linked.

Edit: The idea in itself is good. For that we need to make assembly, sale and possession of behavioral data illegal.

[โ€“] iopq 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but I might have several of these accounts to separate my identities, so I might not link the most used one to your instance, but a throwaway one