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The Zuck suck is in full swing. (social.fossware.space)

In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density."

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[-] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Why do you want them to know all this stuff about you? Also, all this data set on a timescale can be used to triangulate who you are in other data sets they have that are "anonymous". It's trivial to identify you based on a few converging data points.

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