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Protip: if user privacy is a concern to you, then not supporting these companies (by handing them your data) is a good place to start.
by sha256sum 5y ago
Protip: if user privacy is a concern to you, then not supporting these companies (by handing them your data) is a good place to start.
- dehrmann 5y agoGood luck with that. The list of companies to avoid is pretty long.
- dave5104 5y agoAll you need to do is unplug your modem and you're good to go.
- Skunkleton 5y agoDon't drive into a mall parking lot, or use visa card, or ....
- Nextgrid 5y agoIf only it was that easy. The supermarket near me has a "data collection" notice about some tracking BS and to ask an associate for details and to opt-out (yes, as if the minimum-wage teenager would know anything about it, and how would the opt-out even work).
- dzmien 5y agoThe teenager making minimum wage would almost certainly summon a manager.
- dehrmann 5y agoCredit card companies sell your data, too. You basically have to use cash and not have a cell phone.
- ipaddr 5y agoYour list of companies is too short. Throw out the market leaders who spend on brand and cheat somewhere else in the chain and look for a smaller company.
- _8j50 5y agoNo. This needs to be criminalized. Not liking a good or service is one thing. Having things done to you or your information without consent for the purpose of spying on you is stalking with extra steps. Many of these companies still deprive you of your privacy even without using their services by developing shadow profiles on you.
- ipaddr 5y agoThis is an image that loads from a different host. Neither of these companies will create a shell profile if you never visit them. If they are criminal why would you use them?
- Retric 5y ago> If they are criminal why would you use them? People don’t give money to scammers because they know their scammers. It’s the same with privacy issues, people who don’t know what’s happening can’t make informed choices.
- notatoad 5y ago>people who don’t know what’s happening can’t make informed choices. it's really distasteful how privacy advocates always assume that everybody who doesn't feel the same way they do is uninformed. the average person has a basic understanding that companies keep track of them online. everybody who's spent more than five minutes online without an adblocker understands retargeting. it's not that people don't understand, it's that they don't care. telling people they're not informed enough to make their own decisions isn't going to convince them to start caring about the issue you care about.
- Nextgrid 5y agoThe fact that people suspect Facebook of outright listening to them (even when that's not the case) suggest people aren't fully aware of what data is collected, how it is used and how it can be misused. "Facebook listening to people" wouldn't be noteworthy if people weren't creeped out by it.
- Nextgrid 5y agoWell in this case data is collected and sent to various third-parties even without you willingly entering any data on the website manually.
- sha256sum 5y agoThe best bypass for this process is to cut Ubereats entirely out of the picture and call the local restaurant directly to place your order. Ubereats in this case is a third party so what difference does it make? None of you start to think about it.
- Nextgrid 5y agoBecause Uber Eats provides me some service that I value and I am happy for them to be part of the process as a result. TikTok, Facebook, Google, etc following me around provides me no value on the other hand - in fact, I have no account with any and would not see their ads even if I wanted to, so it's technically in their best interest to not waste processing power on stalking me.
- ComradePhil 5y agoNot handing your data to companies will result in poor data and bad decisions on their end, which is bad for them and the customers. What's super idiotic in all this is that the "data companies bad" is often spread by the very companies which would rather have data themselves than their competitors.