• StopMassDownvotingYouIdiot@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @pollodiabolo, it’s interesting that whenever you post, you get boosts from the same set of accounts that downvote every other thread that trends towards the top. And all this happens roughly within a 10 minute stretch! Incidentally, this happens when those other accounts post too! How strange amirite? Wonder if there’s an explanation?

    @journalism_died @ishitwhite @muftiboy @kilkennygriffin and way more than I can tag here

    EDIT: A few more - @jeremyfurzen @riseupagainstthem @ruse-of-metacarpi @johnson_waters @cazzodicristo @at-fieldu

    I suspect a bunch more just to be clear, this is not a comprehensive list. But mentioned accounts are beyond a reasonable doubt either the same person or different people collectively vote manipulating.

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      1 year ago

      If you read it closely, they say they “reserve the right to” delete the accounts/data after 2 years of inactivity. They don’t actually say they will.

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        ohhh now this makes more sense than the misleading headline. they’re just saying "we wanna keep your data, but we also don’t wanna be liable in case us having your data ever becomes a problem to us, so we reserve the right to get rid of it whenever we want for no reason and claim we never had it in the first place

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        Oh, they said that they will:

        We are going to roll this out slowly and carefully, with plenty of notice:

        • While the policy takes effect today, it will not immediately impact users with an inactive account — the earliest we will begin deleting accounts is December 2023.
        • We will take a phased approach, starting with accounts that were created and never used again.
        • Before deleting an account, we will send multiple notifications over the months leading up to deletion, to both the account email address and the recovery email (if one has been provided).

        Source: https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/

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    Once the raw emails have been fed into their ad targeting system, the content of those emails loses the vast majority of its value. Storage is cheap, but not free and inactive accounts have particularly low value. So of course they’ll delete the data.

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      Ahh this makes more sense… I would think they would still keep the raw data… Never know about future use cases.

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    ohhh now this makes more sense than the misleading headline. they’re just saying "we wanna keep your data, but we also don’t wanna be liable in case us having your data ever becomes a problem to us, so we reserve the right to get rid of it whenever we want for no reason and claim we never had it in the first place