#datafarming — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #datafarming, aggregated by home.social.
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Hey NZ Greens, when I visit www.greens.org.nz, it tries to run JavaScript in my browser from a wide range of third-party domains. These break down into 3 categories;
1) Utilities:
* use.typekit.net
* pub.searchiq.coIf these scripts are Free Code, you can serve copies from your own domain. Otherwise, why are you pushing them into our browsers without our knowledge or consent?
2) Unknown:
* g10894638425.co
What even is this? What scripts is it serving up?
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Hey NZ Greens, when I visit www.greens.org.nz, it tries to run JavaScript in my browser from a wide range of third-party domains. These break down into 3 categories;
1) Utilities:
* use.typekit.net
* pub.searchiq.coIf these scripts are Free Code, you can serve copies from your own domain. Otherwise, why are you pushing them into our browsers without our knowledge or consent?
2) Unknown:
* g10894638425.co
What even is this? What scripts is it serving up?
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Hey NZ Greens, when I visit www.greens.org.nz, it tries to run JavaScript in my browser from a wide range of third-party domains. These break down into 3 categories;
1) Utilities:
* use.typekit.net
* pub.searchiq.coIf these scripts are Free Code, you can serve copies from your own domain. Otherwise, why are you pushing them into our browsers without our knowledge or consent?
2) Unknown:
* g10894638425.co
What even is this? What scripts is it serving up?
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Hey NZ Greens, when I visit www.greens.org.nz, it tries to run JavaScript in my browser from a wide range of third-party domains. These break down into 3 categories;
1) Utilities:
* use.typekit.net
* pub.searchiq.coIf these scripts are Free Code, you can serve copies from your own domain. Otherwise, why are you pushing them into our browsers without our knowledge or consent?
2) Unknown:
* g10894638425.co
What even is this? What scripts is it serving up?
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Just signed the petition by the Auckland Patients Group to ...
"Extend the cannabis palliative exemption to all patients and their providers."
https://petitions.parliament.nz/f6fefc9c-0228-4838-b595-08dd56ca1042
Very annoying that I had to allow this official NZ Parliament website to load scripts from google.com and run them in my browser before I could sign this. Why is our government exposing citizens to a known DataFarmer and privacy violator?!
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Just signed the petition by the Auckland Patients Group to ...
"Extend the cannabis palliative exemption to all patients and their providers."
https://petitions.parliament.nz/f6fefc9c-0228-4838-b595-08dd56ca1042
Very annoying that I had to allow this official NZ Parliament website to load scripts from google.com and run them in my browser before I could sign this. Why is our government exposing citizens to a known DataFarmer and privacy violator?!
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Just signed the petition by the Auckland Patients Group to ...
"Extend the cannabis palliative exemption to all patients and their providers."
https://petitions.parliament.nz/f6fefc9c-0228-4838-b595-08dd56ca1042
Very annoying that I had to allow this official NZ Parliament website to load scripts from google.com and run them in my browser before I could sign this. Why is our government exposing citizens to a known DataFarmer and privacy violator?!
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Just signed the petition by the Auckland Patients Group to ...
"Extend the cannabis palliative exemption to all patients and their providers."
https://petitions.parliament.nz/f6fefc9c-0228-4838-b595-08dd56ca1042
Very annoying that I had to allow this official NZ Parliament website to load scripts from google.com and run them in my browser before I could sign this. Why is our government exposing citizens to a known DataFarmer and privacy violator?!
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RE: https://newsie.social/@royaards/116316691046696134
This cartoon illustrates *exactly* why I've long referred to the business practices of corporate social media platforms as 'DataFarming', and referred to them as 'DataFarms', and their owners and advocates as 'DataFarmers'.
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@UlrikeHahn
> as Bluesky grows ... a company that performs sentiment analysis on social media activity about brands could easily create a whole-network indexDataFarming much? E tu, BS?
This is one of many unsavoury reasons why the ATProto network absolutely depends on a central 'firehose', designed to give any intermediary that operates a Relay a global view of the network.
The ATmosphere is a panopticon, *by design*.
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Anyone know who set up this site and what their intentions were?
It asks for an InstaGrab login and a bunch of personal information, and there's no indication of who runs the site, or what happens to the data collected. Just looks like DataFarming of naive youngsters to me.
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Anyone know who set up this site and what their intentions were?
It asks for an InstaGrab login and a bunch of personal information, and there's no indication of who runs the site, or what happens to the data collected. Just looks like DataFarming of naive youngsters to me.
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Anyone know who set up this site and what their intentions were?
It asks for an InstaGrab login and a bunch of personal information, and there's no indication of who runs the site, or what happens to the data collected. Just looks like DataFarming of naive youngsters to me.
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Anyone know who set up this site and what their intentions were?
It asks for an InstaGrab login and a bunch of personal information, and there's no indication of who runs the site, or what happens to the data collected. Just looks like DataFarming of naive youngsters to me.
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Just checked out Qobuz. It offers me albums to buy. I try to listen to them, but it wants me to login. Nope. Moving on to one of the many places where I can listen without doing that.
Asking for a login before allowing preview of an album is like asking people for ID before they can access listening posts in a record store. Choosing stick over carrot implies the login is to improve *their* experience, not mine, by subjecting me to more DataFarming.
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A reminder;
For as long as the majority of kiwis do our social networking and access media via DataFarming platforms, owned and controlled by US technofascists, our democracy will be distorted by the effects of those platforms. So any kiwi who cares about the independence of our country, and our freedom to be self-governing - as a whole, as communities and as citizens - needs to start caring about digital sovereignty.
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"But I discovered that Github is now pushing it even more in that direction: a feed full of random projects and people I don’t care about, notifications to get me to 'discover' new projects and 'follow' new persons. They don’t even try to pretend to be a professional platform anymore. It’s a pure attention-grabbing personal data extorting social networks."
@ploum, 2023
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"If you disagree with any of the policies, you may terminate your agreement with us at any time by discontinuing use of our services and deleting your Discord account."
Email about changes to Discord's ToS, 2025
In plain terms, you can like it or leave. But at the same time, they'll do anything they can to make it hard to leave. This is what dictatorship looks like.
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"You could imagine somebody creating one of these viral-type apps, or social media platforms, or confession platforms, solely just to gather data."
#TaylorLorenz, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-dTz5FsXA
Easily. I mean, this is the standard business justification for creating an online service, and has been well over a decade.
Remember Cambridge Analytica weren't doing anything fringe. That was Business-As-Usual for FarceBook data use.
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@dmian
> I’ve finished migrating my active #GitHub repos to CodebergEvery project that leaves GritHub for good is another measurable dent in the network effects of an enshittified, proprietary platform. Now owned by one of the oldest #DataFarming corporations, who were the earliest enemies of groups working for people's software rights and freedoms.
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Anyone who encounters me here regularly, or has read my writing, will have noticed me using variations of the neologism "#DataFarming". This recent piece by @kboyd sums up exactly what I mean by this term;
https://whateverthing.com/blog/2025/07/20/the-future-is-dumb/
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Well, I finally got around to evaluating the #ManageMyHealth portal;
https://managemyhealth.co.nz/about-us/
When my GP suggested I sign up with it, I presumed it was a public service offered by Te Whatu Ora, like My Health Record;
https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/health-services-and-programmes/digital-health/my-health-record
So what do I think of Manage My Health? Not impressed. This is a privately-owned, for-profit digital platform, that I can't be certain isn't #DataFarming patients who sign up with it.
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"When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with, I was confused: we weren't sharing that number. It turns out that Google had decided to take the number I used to verify my identity for Google Business some years prior and start putting it in Google Search results. WTF, Google?"
@dan, 2025
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In case anyone is looking for evidence of why the 'we value your privacy' promises of proprietary platforms are inherently empty, and can't be trusted ...
"Meta servers download every shared file in Facebook Messenger and Instagram DM in full—even if it’s gigabytes in size ... Meta insisted it wasn’t a bug. When we published videos demonstrating the issue, they asked YouTube to take them down."
https://mastodon.social/@mysk/114859726176255816
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I've hit the final season of Parks and Rec, first broadcast in 2015. It features an unsubtle parody of DataFarming tech corporations, in the form of Gryzzl;
https://parksandrecreation.fandom.com/wiki/Gryzzl
Right now it's feeling like an artifact of a simpler time.
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In the classic H.G. Wells novel The Time Machine, the time-hopping protagonist meets the Eloi, who live in a state of childish innocence. Everything they need is provided by invisible machinery. Maintained by the subterranean Morlocks, who eat the Eloi like farmed animals.
This is a wonderful metaphor for what hyperscale datacentres turned much of the net into.
#novels #SciFi #HGWells #TimeTravel #TheTimeMachine #DataFarming
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A mistrust of apps is not a bad thing. The majority of them exist only to exploit their access to your device for DataFarming purposes (see my recent post about ZipoApps).
That's why I'm so fussy about installing phone apps only from F-Droid. Where they've been rebuilt from source code and checked for spyware, which they either remove, or at least flag (eg if the app is tethered to a DataFarming remote service).
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"WhatsApp could share user data with its parent company, including a user’s phone number, device identifiers, interaction with other users, payment data, cookies, IP address, browser details, mobile network, time zone, and language. In reality, data sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook had started in 2016. The difference in 2021 was that users could no longer opt out ..."
#ToussaintNothias, 2022
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-fight-digital-colonialism/
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"WhatsApp could share user data with its parent company, including a user’s phone number, device identifiers, interaction with other users, payment data, cookies, IP address, browser details, mobile network, time zone, and language. In reality, data sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook had started in 2016. The difference in 2021 was that users could no longer opt out ..."
#ToussaintNothias, 2022
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-fight-digital-colonialism/
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"WhatsApp could share user data with its parent company, including a user’s phone number, device identifiers, interaction with other users, payment data, cookies, IP address, browser details, mobile network, time zone, and language. In reality, data sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook had started in 2016. The difference in 2021 was that users could no longer opt out ..."
#ToussaintNothias, 2022
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-fight-digital-colonialism/
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"WhatsApp could share user data with its parent company, including a user’s phone number, device identifiers, interaction with other users, payment data, cookies, IP address, browser details, mobile network, time zone, and language. In reality, data sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook had started in 2016. The difference in 2021 was that users could no longer opt out ..."
#ToussaintNothias, 2022
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-fight-digital-colonialism/
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@joeyh
> The latest pack of lies from MozillaOther things that make this disappointing;
* no support for Reader Mode without JavaScript on Firefox-based mobile browser
* cookies
* rejecting cookies took me to an authentication refused pageIn other words, nonconsensual DataFarming. Mozilla organisation is totally betraying the most fundamental values of supporting user freedoms, and needs a total bottom-up revolution.
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@ensslen
> in any transaction that isn't optional, they already know who you are. So either you're consenting or you're not providing informationThe information being provided is in the nature of metadata; for a start, what you bought, where, when, and how you paid. AFAIK DataFarming companies regularly buy this data from banks and other companies payments, and from vendors, and it gets added to the massive dossiers these corporations have on us.
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@Sable_Shade
> What about gurgle and its products?Or Meta, scAmazon, grApple or BorgSoft? MuskCorp in general. Every one of these DataFarmers is socially and politically harmful in dozens of ways, leading to injury and death. Giving them money makes one complicit in that.
The only thing giving SubStack a commission on your subscriptions makes you complicit in, is running a nonpartisan open publishing platform. Sorry but I'm fine with that.
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@Sable_Shade
> What about gurgle and its products?Or Meta, scAmazon, grApple or BorgSoft? MuskCorp in general. Every one of these DataFarmers is socially and politically harmful in dozens of ways, leading to injury and death. Giving them money makes one complicit in that.
The only thing giving SubStack a commission on your subscriptions makes you complicit in, is running a nonpartisan open publishing platform. Sorry but I'm fine with that.
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What is the Farmers Market Version of the Internet?
Farmer's markets incentivize local food sources, direct-to-consumer, and decentralized commerce that avoids extensive industrialized farming.
How do we stop the #DataFarming and support smaller, less centralized digital tools?
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What is the Farmers Market Version of the Internet?
Farmer's markets incentivize local food sources, direct-to-consumer, and decentralized commerce that avoids extensive industrialized farming.
How do we stop the #DataFarming and support smaller, less centralized digital tools?
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What is the Farmers Market Version of the Internet?
Farmer's markets incentivize local food sources, direct-to-consumer, and decentralized commerce that avoids extensive industrialized farming.
How do we stop the #DataFarming and support smaller, less centralized digital tools?
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What is the Farmers Market Version of the Internet?
Farmer's markets incentivize local food sources, direct-to-consumer, and decentralized commerce that avoids extensive industrialized farming.
How do we stop the #DataFarming and support smaller, less centralized digital tools?
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There's a bunch of stuff I like about TheDailyBlog.org.nz, but come on Bomber, your site is still serving a bunch of DataFarming scripts to site visitors (some of them obsolete); DoubleClick, StatCounter, and no less than 5 Goggle-owned domains.
You're also doing free advertising for FarceBook, InstaGrab, YouTube and f@&king Xitter! Eeew! Why? They're meant to bring traffic to *your* site.
I feel like I need to sanitise my computer after every time I browse the site.
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"Many types of deceptive pattern are already illegal in the EU and US, depending on the type and context of use ... Businesses that use deceptive patterns are often caught up in legal cases and get hit with big fines and penalties ... We've collected over 400 examples in our hall of shame. The most commonly complained about companies are Google, Facebook, Amazon and LinkedIn."
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Now it would be remiss of me not to groan about the Parliament.govt.nz website. Specifically, demanding I run JavaScript from at least 2 different Goggle-controlled domains, before I could click the 'Submit' button to send in my recommendations.
That's right. On a government website we *have* to use to make official comments on potential legislation. Two domains owned by a corporate DataFarmer. Just to make *one* button work.
There are no word.
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If only publicly-owned and community-owned buildings were as easily available for non-commercial gatherings of citizens and community members, as are groups on DataFarming online platforms.
Maybe then we'd all spend less time online getting predated on by corporations, and more time getting to know the people we share our neighborhoods, towns, cities and countries with.
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I just tried to sign the petition against the Treaty Principles Bill;
https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/kati-stop-the-introduction-of-the-treaty-principles-bill
... but ...
"This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply."
WTSF people?!?
I've been privately emailing ActionStation about this kind of stuff for years. In 2024, exposing people to DataFarming by corporations when they sign political petitions is totally unacceptable.
Sort your f%&king sh$t out.
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Listening to the first episode of a Tech Won't Save Us podcast subseries, called Data Vampires;
https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1
Once again it occurs to me that hyperscaling of datacentres is exactly the wrong approach to hosting online services. Not just from an economic justice and environmental POV, but even from a business POV.
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#podcast #TechWontSaveUs #DataVampires #DataFarming #DataCentres #HyperScaling #DataHubs
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Listening to the first episode of a Tech Won't Save Us podcast subseries, called Data Vampires;
https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1
Once again it occurs to me that hyperscaling of datacentres is exactly the wrong approach to hosting online services. Not just from an economic justice and environmental POV, but even from a business POV.
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#podcast #TechWontSaveUs #DataVampires #DataFarming #DataCentres #HyperScaling #DataHubs
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Listening to the first episode of a Tech Won't Save Us podcast subseries, called Data Vampires;
https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1
Once again it occurs to me that hyperscaling of datacentres is exactly the wrong approach to hosting online services. Not just from an economic justice and environmental POV, but even from a business POV.
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#podcast #TechWontSaveUs #DataVampires #DataFarming #DataCentres #HyperScaling #DataHubs
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Listening to the first episode of a Tech Won't Save Us podcast subseries, called Data Vampires;
https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1
Once again it occurs to me that hyperscaling of datacentres is exactly the wrong approach to hosting online services. Not just from an economic justice and environmental POV, but even from a business POV.
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#podcast #TechWontSaveUs #DataVampires #DataFarming #DataCentres #HyperScaling #DataHubs
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"We supported those protesting in the streets ...
We urged the Supreme Court to expand protections for your cell phone data, and in Carpenter v United States, they did so—recognizing that location information collected by cell providers creates a “detailed chronicle of a person’s physical presence compiled every day, every moment over years.” Now, police must get a warrant before obtaining a significant amount of this data."#EFF, Nov 6, 2024
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/2024-us-election-over-eff-ready-whats-next
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IMHO there ought to robust privacy laws, in every jurisdiction, that ban this kind of rampant DataFarming. Am I the only person who continues to be shocked by the fact that this kind of practice not only considered acceptable by the industry, but normal?!?