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Tips on making your data less sellable? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 8 months ago by Battle_Masker to c/asklemmy

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A charity I'm volunteering for and a contractor I know insist I have a facebook account for contact reasons. Naturally I bought a separate device to use for that, but I was wondering if there were ways to make my data undesirable to potential buyers. So far I got the obvious tiennamen square posting and that gay putin pic, but I was wondering what else I could do

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[–] qooqie 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That sort of data doesn’t make you less desirable. They will have algorithms that can put together what you’d still most likely want to buy just from those pics. The best way is to generate no data. Keep it blank, post nothing, connect as little as possible, use a VPN, stuff like that.

Also posting those pics on your Facebook isn’t a great idea if you’re using it for charity and work purposes lol