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What's the worst privacy compromise that you are willing to admit you make? (sopuli.xyz)
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I've got to make a decision and want to take a room temperature check on what sacrifices people find acceptable for their own comfort. Use any services you know you shouldn't? Any tools that you're just waiting for a chance to replace but can't yet?

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[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

Reward programs can link purchases to you through 2 different means:

  • if you give your name and phone number to the smartphone application
  • if the supermarket links the purchase to the actual bill sent to the bank account

You cannot technically avoid the second one but I know that most stores don't do that because their systems are separated: one system for the inventory, one system for sending transactions to the banks. I'm telling this because, while they can link your debit/credit card to your purchase, it never happens because it's a major PITA for them and it's a manual process. But it can happen...