It's another old favourite from the original CoActivate version of the blog, encouraging activists and other community groups to stay in control of our mailing lists, instead of outsourcing it to for-profit companies that may well use it to #DataFarm our members and supporters.
Can someone please create a browser extension that pops up a big scary warning when you try to open a link infected by DataFarmers? Like the one we get when we try to open a link using HTTP instead of HTTPS.
That's a good metaphor for DataFarming; any revenue model for online services that involves getting large number of people onto a platform, gathering data about them, and selling it (or the use of it) to third-parties. Any online platform funded by ads is probably a #DataFarm.
"Meta and Threads collect a lot of data. Including but not limited to health and fitness, financial info, contact info, purchases, location and identifiers. While Threads does not currently show ads or sponsored posts, the company says ads will be how it monetizes the site. For marketers and advertisers, joining Threads seems obvious when considering the mass data collection and analysis currently being done by Meta."