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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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why don't you guys scrobble? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From a privacy standpoint, i guess. I want to support open scrobbling with listenbrainz and the account isn't directly linked to a real acc. Why shouldn't I/ why don't you?

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[–] angrystego 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In totalitarian countries, those who listen to certain types of music are persecuted, because it links them with demografic that can be threatening to the regime. Even if your country is not totalitarian now, the existence of this data could be potentionally harmful to you in the future (just like any data, really).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In quite a few countries some genres of music are actually illegal. Nazi music in France, most of western music in Iran, ...