privacyreboot on Nostr: Every time you look up someone on social media you are giving the platforms a clue. ...

Every time you look up someone on social media you are giving the platforms a clue.

Every group you join, every photo you like, another clue.

The clue you give them helps them paint a picture of you and build out a network of your associates and interests.

The topics you are served and the groups you see are never ending and aimed to keep you engaged and to serve you ads.

Those platforms have their feelers and tracking cookies scattered across the internet feeding even more information back about you, your habits and interests.

That's social media in a nutshell. You tell your friends i was talking about holidays the other day and i started getting advertisements about travel.

That's no accident you're the product. I'm not saying don't use social media just we aware of how things really are and make your own decision in an informed way.

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