Tips on making your data less sellable?

3 years ago by Battle_Masker to c/asklemmy

A charity I'm volunteering for and a contractor I know insist I have a facebook account for contact reasons. Naturally I bought a separate device to use for that, but I was wondering if there were ways to make my data undesirable to potential buyers. So far I got the obvious tiennamen square posting and that gay putin pic, but I was wondering what else I could do

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BlackXanthus 11 points 3 years ago

Choose an unclear gender (other, agender, etc) and your data becomes less useful. Marketing campaigns are based on broad categories, like male or female, so choosing neither lowers your data's value.

Similarly, lie about your education and your employment. Pick a made up job, be a wizard, or a spaceman. Jobs, again, are wide categories, so nonsense jobs, the more niche the better, the less they have to market things to you.

In theory you can do the same with hobbies, but three points of data, even made up data, is sellable somewhere.

Lie, of course, if you can. I'm sure there are more denizens of Hell on Facebook than the real place.

Where possible, choose other.

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Rentlar 3 points 3 years ago

Hitachi noticed your career in wizardry, and would like to recommend you the Magic Wand Original! Buy one today!

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