I think the average person just simply doesn't care about their privacy.

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In some of the music communities I'm in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They're all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match... Mark was right to call the people he's leaching off of fucking idiots.

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I care. I’m just increasingly convinced it’s too fucking late.

Tbh it's not black and white. I'm sure a big corporation can extract a ton of information on us but there's still a pretty big gap between having our real names and photos plastered everywhere on social media, or them just knowing where I live and that I spend a lot on steam games. Don't take the small victories for granted.

It is. They know everything about you. Even every store you have shopped at knows a lot about you. It really doesn’t take much interaction for a company to get a lot of info. It’s relatively easy to get an email and from there, if they wanted, they can get the rest of your profile from a 3rd party who has your data all matched up already. They can also build your profile pretty easily themselves as well.

How can regular people buy this data?

Say I wanted to find out what my profile looks like?

I imagine "you" can't

you'd likely have to work for some marketing agency and can probably only buy user data in bulk amounts (based on region, or some other desired demographic) with a recurring business plan of course

it wouldn't be financially beneficial for these companies to sell an individual thumbprint

Yes. I would like this info as well if anyone has it ^.^

If you're in the US, you can demand a company release the information they have on you, to you, for inspection. It's more data than you'd think. A LOT more.

You have the right to request access to inspect the personal information a company stores on you. At least, in the US. And I believe the UK and EU as well but I can't speak as much to those.

If you want to be truly terrified (or enlightened, however you prefer to think of it), pick any big company that you've used and request all the data they have stored on you. The amount of data they'll have is STAGGERING. Certainly hundreds of pages, possibly thousands. It's insane.

It's never too late. Sure, they already have a lot of data on you but you can keep them from getting more.

Definitely. I’m was trying to state that basic info about you is readily available to companies regardless of how you choose to interact with them.

I think personal data poisoning is going to become more prevalent among privacy communities, I would like to see some tooling for this in the next few years.

Im in basically the same position since realistically the change needs to be at an institutional level. I can't really change anything by myself without excluding myself from most modern services.

We need laws and regulations. But like you I fear it's too late.

It might not be. Plenty of US states are coming online with privacy rights. If you live in CA, CO, CT or VA you can submit requests to opt out of information sales and for sites to erase your data.

Me. I care I just....fuck. That ship has sailed. I don't go out of my way to download the big offenders like Tik Tok but....still. Everyone is tracking me. Everyone is selling my information. God knows how many different companies have massive files on me.

Same here, but that doesn't stop me from trying where I have the time and energy. One of those ways is voting. So far the government has let these companies wipe their shit onto every corner of the internet, and the 5-10% of us switching apps or emails or... Whatever, aren't going to change that. It's not a short-term solution, but I'm starting to think it's really the only way.