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[โ€“] 50 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Complain to your local government. Yes, many websites are guilty of surveillance capitalism themselves and are lobbying for it, but the recent push was largely in response to new surveillance laws passed by governments under various guises, such as protecting the youth.

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    My government are pushing for this stuff though.

    Which is why I am here now instead of on reddit where I got fed up of being asked to submit for facial and ID scans. Fuck that! I have seen some of my comments online, there is no way I want my ID permanently attached to that.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 9 points 4 months ago*

    welcome! great choice!

    I originally planned to just join the boycott for only a month, like 2 years ago because of the third party apps thing

    but I ended up never going back because lemmy is so much more chill, interesting and fun to me

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