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by ForHackernews 828 days ago
I'm not worried about being targeted by Pegasus, but I am worried about getting targeted for adshit by Google, or them selling all my info to databrokers, or having them disable all my accounts for arbitrary reasons. I think we have different threat models.

Maybe you're special enough to be worth targeting for bespoke surveillance, I'm worried about avoiding ordinary mass-market adtech surveillance.

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Yes, my super expensive secret is way more valuable than getting ads about my hemorrhoids.
You know they have secure drives, right? I wouldn't carry anything I really cared about around on my phone.

... oh this is some cryptocurrency thing, isn't it?