Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
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Biounique id is an advertiser's wet dream and I don't think it's theoretically possible to prevent it from being exploited for profiling by Google. If the hashed encrypted token retains the uniqueness then it points to you as an individual across time, devices and location changes. There is no escaping this ID. You can't change it, you can't get a new one.
Google and other multinational corporations WILL know where you live and can figure out all your personal characteristics with a little time. Your anonymity is gone forever.
Sam Altman saw the film Minority Report in which iris scanners on holographic billboards trigger the advertisements to address you by name, hampering the escape of the central character who was being set up, and thought "Cool, let's make this. I'm going to be rich! The other dystopian aspects of the film are fiction, but this one I can make real."
In theory the unique id produced by the scan could be salted by you, uniquely for each website or application, and then provided to the site. This would keep aggregators from being able to track all your activity, or at least it would if they didn't already have fingerprinting techniques that do it without the need of another unique identifier.
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Who TF is actually going to want to use these platforms bad enough to do this shit?
Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.
Reddit is mainly just very poorly disguised government surveillance and AI generated advertisement, and none of the content is even enjoyable or enticing. Who TF is their target audience?
You severely overestimate how much the average person cares about their own privacy.
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Humans with human eyeballs are still using Reddit? I thought it was just bots moderating bots by now.
happy cake day
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You severely overestimate how much the average person cares about their own privacy.
Even so, are they going to acquire, set up, and use an iris scanner just to remain anonymous on Reddit?
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Been trying to get people on Reddit to cross over to the light over here but damn it’s hard
Why? I don't want anyone here to whom it's not self evident to that it's better here. For it to stay a better place it needs to keep better people who can make their own decisions using their brains.
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there's such a painfully obvious agenda over there with the admins. I got a 7 day ban for knocking russians and saying "slava ukraini" then I got a perm ban a week after that for posing the question "how long until an average citizen with an AR decides to deal with ICE themselves?" because apparently both times I was "inciting violence against a minority" because Russians and ICE agents, according to Reddit, are minorities
The Russia part is still how it works in .ml.
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I can see why Reddit needs to secure the user base. As not accounts proliferate they need to be able to demonstrate verified real users to their advertisers. Unfortunately for privacy, this will be widespread, in that case. I'm opting out.
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Who TF is actually going to want to use these platforms bad enough to do this shit?
Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.
Reddit is mainly just very poorly disguised government surveillance and AI generated advertisement, and none of the content is even enjoyable or enticing. Who TF is their target audience?
Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.
In Canada we passed a regulation that social media sites have to pay our media companies to link to their articles. Google is paying up, but Facebook said no, and has banned news. It has made Facebook here much less terrible.
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Even so, are they going to acquire, set up, and use an iris scanner just to remain anonymous on Reddit?
It’ll be in yer phone
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don’t kink shame my dude
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don’t kink shame my dude
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It’ll be in yer phone
Probably someday, but the article is describing a dedicated orb device that does this.
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In theory the unique id produced by the scan could be salted by you, uniquely for each website or application, and then provided to the site. This would keep aggregators from being able to track all your activity, or at least it would if they didn't already have fingerprinting techniques that do it without the need of another unique identifier.
If the biometric ID is collected and stored by someone else, not only have I lost my anonymity, I've also lost control of my identity and there's no way for me to stop that happening.
This is unequivocally bad for privacy.
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The Russia part is still how it works in .ml.
I've blocked the .ml instance so I wouldn't know.
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I've blocked the .ml instance so I wouldn't know.
Yeah I'm not sure why I haven't yet. I guess I just keep thinking that there's some topics like tech that they can't turn into a propaganda opportunity, but they consistently prove me wrong.
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I've blocked the .ml instance so I wouldn't know.
It's not how it works, don't worry. They're just strawmanning.
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huh... maybe because of the period and no space? Markdown thinks it's a list item?
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