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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by sidgames5@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every time I used google assistant. This is just some of the data and I'm very sure there is even more data they have.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fucking whataboutism. Apple and Microsoft aren’t ad companies. They’re hardware and software companies. They don’t have to collect data on you to literally make any money, Google does. If Google doesn’t track everything you do they’re incapable of making money. The same is absolutely not true for ms and Apple.

[–] wall_inhabiter@lemdro.id 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Whataboutism? Where did I say this makes what Google is doing better? They all work together. God you people are dense.

Microsoft and Apple absolutely are ad companies lmfao.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Microsoft is a ad company and Apple locks you in so you only buy there proprietary products. I don't see how they are better

[–] rhebucks-zh@incremental.social 1 points 9 months ago

especially now that they give out Windows upgrades for free

[–] wall_inhabiter@lemdro.id 1 points 9 months ago

Apple is still an ad company they just want to cordon off their "private ad system" with their VPN products and hide my email shit. Don't trust Apple at all myself

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 9 months ago

The point of calling ou twhataboutism is that we should condemn both of them