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Prominent Online Creators Demand Lowe's and Home Depot Ditch Mass Surveillance (www.fightforthefuture.org)
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[–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Target too, they use Flock!!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I've been personally boycotting them since they bent over and spread in January 2025, so this was news to me. They really have a flock deal?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I've got one right outside the road entrance to our Target which is also the entrance for a shopping strip mall and restaurants. I don't frequent Target ever, but some of the other stores I did. I avoid that whole area now bc is sort of hidden in the main road. They don't need ALL the other traffic data, so why pace it right there??! Suspicious AF! I don't shop at Lowe's either bc ours has like 3 or 4 around that lot and strip of stores. Fuck em!

    I'm in the Midwest with Menard's, Ace Hardware, and Home Depot (tho HD is a little further)

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    • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Or don't, I'm enjoying the much more pleasant experience at my local lumber yard now that the downsides of big box stores have so far exceeded the cost difference.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Same, there's a little hardware/lumber store I frequent, they are friendly, they have what I need, they have never made me run the cash register, and they don't have creepy cameras in the parking lot.

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    • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    They’ll listen alright. /s

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    How and when did humanity go so badly wrong that the Home Depot would ever even begin to consider the possibility of outsourcing the surveillance of its customers to Flock? Who did I see lately calling for a revolution? Maybe they were right. This alone is enough to condemn the present order of things.

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    • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I'm sure they will get right on that.... not.

    A bunch of random Youtube narcissists demand a boycott?

    Hell, Home Depot and Lowes are virtual monopolies in a lot of areas.

    Home Depot is owned by a maga billionaire.

    This seems more like posturing than substance.

    Also I'm not buying the "combined audience of 46 million people"

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