Plex is in hot water about a similar thing right now as well, sharing your viewing history with all of your "friends", after dark-patterning you into permitting it:
Every tech company on earth tracks you. Bluesky included. It's what they do with the data that matters. Spotify parsing my data to find out what my favorite songs are is fine with me. The whole internet runs on data. Let's not broadly demonize data. Let's specifically demonize unethical use of data.
What they pretty much all do is profit from the data we produce, which depending on your point of view has some pretty inherent ethical issues around it.
I am fine with profiting on aggregate data as long as they don't charge for the very same platform or sell the data to companies that use it in unethical ways. But determining what music to show to a user based on other music they consume is not unethical.
But also an opportunity to discuss what we are ok and not ok with firms tracking. Whereas I wish I could get Spotify “credit” for what I listen to in the car, I don’t want social platforms to geotag my location and use my photos to inform algorithm development.
Idk, it seems like they’re mostly tracking basic app usage stuff. If it was like “here are your top 10 facial expressions we got through your front camera while listening to the new Taylor Swift album!” i would be a lot more concerned lmao
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