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Sure, but what they're gonna do with that is the question. Like even if there is a profile on my Lemmy account, which ads are they going to send me? How? Where is that data going to be worth anything?
I mean I live in a country whose political environment was irrevocably changed because of Cambridge Analytica. And facebook's algorithm is partly being blamed for the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. It's not really about you that I'm worried with, but for others in general.
But still, all that was done through political ads and algorithm changes, and I literally haven't seen any ad in years, and so far Lemmy's algorithm is very transparent.