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Can instance admins see users' history of visited post? (reddthat.com)

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

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As we are concerned about privacy, I am curious just to understand if lemmy can be at some point exploited by someone to profile its users.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still a fingerprint, the most vague information correlated with other data points can make a useful fingerprint. This is how a lot of the companies can track you even if you aren't logged in, you using any service creates a pattern that with enough aggregate data can be used to approximate who you are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, it looks like privacy on internet is really a mirage