Every single corporation is doing what they’re legally bound to do: increase profits for shareholders. Companies don’t and never have cared about the customer. They care about a customer as much as you care about an NPC. What’s with people thinking that they ever cared??

Of course MS is using that data. Why wouldn’t they?? Would they lose customers if people found out? Nope. If you were in charge of making that decision, you would use that data too. And if you’re too held to your privacy morals, you’ll never be in that position at MS because they only place people that will decide to maximize profits.

Here’s how you know a company is doing something: Would it make them more money? Then theyre doing it. That’s it.

Also, it’s MICROSOFT!! lol Not Mozilla, RedHat, Canonical, or the Linux Foundation. Remember when someone shoved a pie in Bill Gates face?

I understand trilateration, but what’s “oracle trilateration”? How did these dating apps share the proximity distance of a user and to what precision? Like if it said the user is 5km away, that is still going to give a pretty big area if someone were to trilateral it because the line of the circle would have to include 4.5-5.5km away. Do that three times, and we’d get an area of about a square km. To get it down to 2m, the app would have to be precise to the meter, such as “user is 5,000m away”.

I just ran a test on my stock Pixel 8 Pro connected via Proton VPN:

1. I opened Firefox and searched DuckDuckGo for “pool heater”.

2. I scrolled down until I saw an Amazon link, then closed the tab and Firefox.

3. I opened the Amazon app. I scrolled through the “deals” on the app’s home page and did not see anything pool related at all.

4. I typed “pool” into the search slowly, to see if and when “pool heater” was suggested as a search. I typed in “pool” entirely, yet “pool heater” was never suggested.

I don’t know what that implies, but it seems like if I am using Firefox, DDG, and Proton VPN, Amazon isn’t monitoring my Internet searches.

Unplug it