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1. Sim (sim@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2017 05:03:13 UTC Sim
   "However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses."
   
   So this is data-mining, yes? This is mastodon social.
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   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2017 06:23:54 UTC Bob Mottram

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     @sim I guess they're turning to the dark side. Trouble is if you do that you haven't solved any problems. You've merely moved some users from one advertising hell to another. The advertising model has major down sides which we all know about.
   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2017 06:47:27 UTC Bob Mottram

     • Annah's got the Shotgun
     • mangeurdenuage
     @maiyannah @mangeurdenuage @sim on !Freedom one logging is turned off by default for both performance and privacy reasons. However, this doesn't stop other gnusocial servers from collecting your IP address, and if they're evil selling it to advertisers or states.
   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2017 06:57:44 UTC Bob Mottram

     • Annah's got the Shotgun
     • mangeurdenuage
     @sim @maiyannah @mangeurdenuage regardless of protocol, there's usually server logs. In Eben Moglen' "Freedom in the cloud" talk he describes how who keeps the logs is a determinant of political power in the network.