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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 22:01:14 JST Aral Balkan

   When privileged folks tell me at my talks “I don’t care about my privacy / I have nothing to hide / Give me one example of the ramifications of surveillance capitalism / etc.”, I tell them “you will care when your health insurance premiums go up because your Smart Fridge tells the insurance companies what you’re eating/drinkjng.” This is basically the same thing. Sad that it takes things hitting their own wallets for privileged folks to pay attention.

   🤷♂️ https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/112077137922790367

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     Enrique Barcelli (kikobar@acc4e.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 05:12:37 JST Enrique Barcelli

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     @aral too late... my supermarket has been selling this information for the last 2 decades... 🙄

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     Maggie Maybe (maggiejk@zeroes.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 05:12:37 JST Maggie Maybe

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     • Enrique Barcelli

     @kikobar @aral I stopped going to the Rite Aid down the road from me because the only way to get the advertised sales price is to use the stupid rewards card. And years ago they stopped letting people use the one at the register if we “forgot” our card.

     I’m not paying more than other people when there’s a sale just because I refuse to give them my information so they can sell it. So I just don’t go there.

     Hannaford was doing that for a while so I stopped shopping there. I had to go there recently for something specific and I don’t think they do that anymore.