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Read their privacy policy, I guess.

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Usually those documents leave many legal back doors open, just in case. It doesn’t automatically mean that they are currently backstabbing you, but they want to have that option available to them. If you see lots of open doors like that, they are there for a reason. An honest company doesn’t need any, whereas a shady company wants all of them.

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I thought it was a title to an article but it turn out it was someone who mistook Lemmy for a search engine

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What if it IS a search engine? Maybe there’s a site out there that posts every question to a random fediverse sub!

Matter of fact, let’s make one. We’ll just use scripts to post every question to social media but program it to say the wrong thing first so that it gets instant results when everyone jumps on the “person” who was wrong. Brilliant!

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Short answer: yes

Long-ish answer: https://tosdr.org/en/service/180

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tl;dr: no more than any other similar company

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Not that long ago, they drastically improved their privacy policy, consent and opt-out capabilities. Is it perfect? No but it has never been better.

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