• bobs_monkey
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    7 months ago

    Advertisers probably don’t like an anonymous user base.

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        7 months ago

        It used to be that you didn’t need an email to sign up. The account I had before the API crap this summer didn’t have an email associated with it. Couple that with using an always on VPN browser anti-fingerprint measures, and you could theoretically maintain a reasonable degree of anonymity, assuming you don’t dox yourself. I assume a lot of this also has to do with users utilizing VPNs to circumvent band as well.

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          7 months ago

          But they can still use everything you’ve written there to work out stuff about you. I bet they don’t do it well though, given how poorly targeted their advertising was