#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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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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"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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Although it doesn't affect the main thrust of his argument, I don't agree with Aral that the web was always centralized. There are still, here and there, remnants of the pre-Geocities tradition on personal homepages hosted on the person's own desktop computer in their home or office. The changes to the ISP business that made this increasingly impractical - and set the stage for the #DataFarming business - are documented by #JohnWalker in 'The Digital Imprimatur'
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/