Another great video from Reject Convenience, you should especially watch the part (7:29 - 10:15) about how specific location data can get with precise location on (spoiler alert: a literal battery width radius, please only allow precise location for your map app 🤢)

He also has a great tool he explains throughout the video, his privacy visualizer which you can click as you go through a site’s privacy policy to mark what they collect and how they handle the data (just collected, traded/shared, or sold?)

If you want a starting point, try looking at the permissions of the apps you have downloaded. Or try looking at Terms of Service; Didn’t Read to figure out who the biggest offenders are first and work your way up to the least creepiest providers.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    we can safely assume they wouldn’t throw in shit that they don’t actually collect.

    Again, no we can’t. I explained this above.

    If you DO have to use the service, you know what kinds of data they’ll collect

    If you do have to use it, then it doesn’t matter. They’re going to get it whether you read it or not.

    and you can go to the settings of the service or app to reduce what you give

    This is not in the privacy policy.

    The whole point of the video (and his channel in general) is to reduce the amount of blind ignorance going on with privacy.

    And the whole point of my comment is that the privacy policy is meaningless.

    Knowledge is power, that’s why they hope people don’t read privacy policies.

    People don’t read them because they are long and complicated and most of all because they don’t care.