ParanoidAct

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   by ParanoidAct 11y ago

   > In fact, I'd go so far as to say that using the internet to collect data on usage patterns is a sufficiently powerful technique No-one is saying that's a bad thing. What's bad is that it does this automatically without
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   by ParanoidAct 11y ago

   Don't forget it also automatically sends arbitrary data, possibly sensitive to bugsnag.com when an exception occurs and AFAIK, this is not covered by disabling analytics and possibly not by the privacy policy either. https:/&#x2
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   by ParanoidAct 11y ago

   In my case, the only reason I don't use it is because I cannot add it to my browser; `opensearch.xml` statically points to https://duckduckgo.com/
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   by ParanoidAct 11y ago

   I never understood the purpose of programs like this as a child. All that effort, money, time, etc. pumped into it and somehow the only ones that ever seemed to have any effect at all were like this https://www.youtube.com/w
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   Atom editor collects user data without consent(github.com)

   3 points by ParanoidAct 11y ago|0 comments