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  • Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not anti-Fediverse here, but tbf it would be ridiculously easy for data harvesting companies to plug into the API and fingerprint individual users from their activity. Admittedly, I don’t see how browser based fingerprinting could be done without hosting an instance.

    • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Sure, it’d be easy to do that but that’s true for everything with an open API really. I don’t think that makes Lemmy less privacy respecting. The only thing a harvester could grab is the things you’ve chosen to post publicly. Is that a good thing? No, not really but it’s certainly much less invasive than being on a site/app that harvests both that and fingerprints your devices and tries to get all your OS/location data/etc at the same time.