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Google and Facebook have particularly not-great privacy reputations because they are advertising companies whose business models are precluded on collecting your personal info.



You don't have to have your business model be advertising in order to be shitty at privacy.


(...but it probably helps)


Counterintuitively, you are more likely to be better at privacy if you are in the business of selling data, especially in the current regulatory climate.

The websites that have been the worst at maintaining my privacy were those that primarily sold physical products or medical services. You'd be amazed how many organizations broker data now.


Which people offer freely.


Facebook tracks people even if they don't have an account and have never consented to any terms. How is that offering freely?




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