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[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

Same.

This is my thinking about it. I doubt that advertisers pay any attention to that. But I think political surveilence might, or maybe even industrial espionage. Like govs targeting reporters. Whistleblowers. Human rights activists. Opposition party politicians. Or important scientists, engineers.

The reason I think that is, advert ecosystems are about mass aggregation on the cheap. They want as much behavioral data as they can about everyone. For as little cost as possible. But it's statistical, they aren't interested in individuals in particular. But, political or industrial surveilence is more about high value targets. Important individuals.

So my guess is, taking extreme measures for totally innocent privacy reasons could make someone stand out from the endless legions of ppl who don't do that. But it wouldn't be advertisers who care. It'd be like three letter agencies.