@MATAK79 I wonder if this is related to that recent unscrupulous project that was advertising to buy secret recordings of therapy sessions. It was obviously for AI scraping purposes.

@_L1vY_ oh wow didn’t even know that happened. I did read something about better help or another of those online therapy things sharing data though. My doc suggested them and I said hell no.

@MATAK79@stranger.social @_L1vY_@mstdn.social

You told your doctor
why you said "hell no"? Not every doctor that recommends a given service knows about some services' fuckery.

@ferricoxide @_L1vY_ @MATAK79

This is absolutely true -- healthcare professionals rarely understand cyber-security. For example, I used to recommend the Calm App (and occasionally still do). But then... what do they do with all that health data they consider "non-medical"? And... I believe they are the ones that later launched a health services division including psychotherapy...

@reederm @ferricoxide @_L1vY_ it puts somebody like me in the position of second-guessing my own judgment. When we are drawn to the convenience and efficiency of moving things, remote online, etc. yet every single time I do that, I don’t want to second-guess if my information is safe or being sold or used to build AI. There’s clearly. A lot I don’t know about it as well.

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@MATAK79 @ferricoxide @_L1vY_

Not perfect, but as a rule of thumb you could install the privacy badger plug-in and check how many 3rd party cookies it stops as a gauge of how privacy conscious or caring a given site is.

@ferricoxide @_L1vY_ @MATAK79

Wow, I think my record is around 23.

FYI -- webmd.com is one of the worst.

@reederm@qoto.org @_L1vY_@mstdn.social @MATAK79@stranger.social

The worst site was 530-something. I've ad a few in the 200s and 300s. Most are in the 1- to 3-dozen range.

The worst offenders tend to be "best of " when I'm trying to make buying-decisions (usually an indication that the probably scraped their content rather than actually doing their own,
real research). Similarly, a lot of tech-sites pop up a bunch (especially the ones that seem to prefer offering video content rather than detailed text-based content).

@ferricoxide @_L1vY_ @MATAK79

Ferricoxide -- That is an AMAZING number of blocked 3rd party cookies!!

@reederm Not gonna lie when I first read this I thought Ferricoxide was some slang for Fucking hell. LoL It took me a second to register that it was just a name. took@ferricoxide@evil.social @_L1vY_ @MATAK79

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