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flo, the period tracking app was recently exposed and sued for selling user data to meta and google through embedded sdks despite claiming to care about privacy. it’s a sharp reminder that even the most intimate data isn’t safe in web2. but here’s the thing, i look at web3 right now and i’m not sure we’re doing much better.

i’m getting ads on farcaster and base. my activity is fully visible. i’m being tracked, boosted and categorized by onchain algorithms. half my recasts are from auto engagement bots and i’m following people i’ve never met because some growth app told me to.

so seriously, what are we doing differently? what does “privacy” even mean here, when transparency turns into surveillance and open data is just another goldmine for better ad targeting?

reposting this in a different channel because my casts barely get any reach these days

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Thanks for the info - better safe than sorry, always 👀.