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  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    We all have a fundamental right to privacy, which is constantly violated. Not just on a daily basis, but on a minute by minute basis.

    But to play devil’s advocate for a moment to assuage some FUD around posts like this, how many of the absurd amount of cookies overlap in otherwise innoculous ways. For instance, product tracking cookies. Say you bought a pumpkin on Amazon, and that drops a gorde cookie, a pumpkin spice cookie, a cornucopia cookie etc.

    That’s certainly not the same as buy a pumpkin, track your location around the nearest pumpkin patch, read your grandma’s emails about pumpkins, and collect information to determine your likelihood of buying another pumpkin based on your sexual orientation.

    The latter certainly exists, but does anyone know much about the former? How prevalent would they be in that 850?