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1. Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 21:01:32 JST Richard Stallman

   How can you really get to know a person? Ask to see per loyalty cards: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/25/how-can-you-really-get-to-know-a-person-ask-to-see-their-loyalty-cards

   If I showed you mine, you'd get to know me well enough. I have only one — from a chain which let me have it without my giving any personal data. That is why I judge it is acceptable to use.

   The Boston subways and buses would let me pay a reduced rate because of my age, but then it would associate all my travel with my name and personal data. No thanks!

   • Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 21:01:37 JST Richard Stallman

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     If you asked to see what store apps I use, the answer would be even more revealing: none at all. I refuse to carry a snoop-phone, so I can't use phone apps. Anyway, I don't want to, since all those apps are nonfree programs, which means they are not worthy of trust. So I don't trust them to run on my computers.

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 21:19:09 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @rms a lot of the places that have loyalty cards have one they can use upon request. I usually do that so I can get the discount. Sheetz doesn't require info so I get a new card whenever I need one for a discount. I also know people who don't care and I sometimes just put their phone numbers in (they get "points" or whatever so they don't mind)
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 21:20:41 JST Moon

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     @thatguyoverthere @rms I have like ten per store and I pick up a different one every time I go.
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   • 𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 (ryan@rebased.io)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 22:14:53 JST 𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘

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     • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

     An ex-girlfriend’s parents were like that (collected the points) and I use to give their landline to retailers all the time until eventually 15 years had passed we had both married and the clerk tells me they’ve sent the receipt to the email on file

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   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 29-Sep-2023 22:18:42 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • 𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘
     @ryan @rms I also read in "Obfuscation" about the idea of trading loyalty cards with randoms which I thought sounded like a cool idea. At this point minimizing the data collected is an uphill battle, but we can always poison the data and make it less useful.