and yet you use american sites and services like this one, where you freely give even more personal data than fingerprints like your interests, thoughts, and more!

I see comments like this all over hackernews but the truth is you actually don't care. You have a choice to not use HN/Reddit/YouTube/whatever but here you are.

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shiandow 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The value was always in the connection not any individual datum.

Besides, I choose what information I link to this identity do I not? You're welcome to my views and their connection to each other. Doesn't mean I want you to know everything else.

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villish 16 hours ago | parent [-]

What is more personal than the contents of your mind? Each interaction and comment is a piece of information which when combined is much more revealing about you than fingerprints.

It's not as personal as your diary, but it is the closest thing to it.

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		You're free to know me, but not where I live. It's not hard to see the difference in types of personal information.

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bigyabai 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a bad-faith conflation of personal data with openly-shared information. It's not contradictory at all to use HN if you're disgusted by the analytics of Reddit or X.

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