Quote from: 18hammers on Oct 07, 2023, 09:40 PMI have no illusion of privacy and am aware of alphabet agencies being all knowing, it is more the data harvesting for commercial ad targeting, the demographic profiling for sales purposes that I "try" not to aid. 

Also a reasonable desire, except that anyone interested in commercial ad targeting and demographic data mining of a website like this one or the original Doomstead Diner would end up bankrupt, 1st because there is practically nobody reading it, 2nd because the average age demographic comes in only slightly younger than the already dead and no longer a potential consumer of their product, 3rd because the majority of the few readers our websites attract have little disposable income to waste on the junk they are trying to sell, and 4th that our leftist and rabidly anti-capitalist spin means no matter what product they want to sell, we wouldn't buy it just on principle. lol

If after applying their best and most advanced AI filters and cross matching subroutines to our posts, the products they come up with would undubtedly be (and are, because they are the ads I consistently see pop up on my screen) really cool Dooomstead, Survival, communications and self defense gear you otherwise would not have found with your own really slow google searches of the millions of possible  items and suppliers...well, that's GREAT!  ROFLMAOPIMP.  At last, an application of the network that is useful to me!  ;D

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