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Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification (pluralistic.net)
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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I'll be fucked if I have my search history associated with my payment information. Not that I have any weird shit in there, just that I know at some point what I look for and buy will get cross-correlated and sold to the highest bidder. Plus, data breaches. And bittorrent searches.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

We really need a Internet native anonymous payment protocol yesterday.