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 If your public key is used anywhere you go - all clients - in the Nostr realm, doesn't that make us vulnerable to being profiled by companies to use for advertising?

In other words your public key acts like a persistent advertising ID?

(I'm new to Nostr so forgive me if I've misunderstood!)  
 Can anyone recommend a spec list for a PC (that will run Linux) that will be a self hosting server?

(Self hosting a website, and home media server. So doesn't need much power?)  
 Amazing article from #ShoshanaZuboff  that explains how #bigtech took over, why they are #antidemocratic, and what we can do about it:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26317877221129290

Spoiler alert - we need to ban #SurveillanceAdvertising, the fuel of #SurveillanceCapitalism  
 I'm interested in hearing about how to make a decentralised YouTube alternative....  
 Resist using #algorithms, people - that's the path to #microtargeting and therefore #manipulation, and therefore #fakenews and lack of faith in the truth. And from that you get a herd of dumbasses 😂 
 In the age of #surveillancecapitalism, the true cost of free services is not #data, but #freedom.... 
 And #democracy 😬 
 Strong recommendation for this excellent new #deathmetal album from Ashen Tomb 🤘

Buy it on Bandcamp and more money goes directly to the band 😊
https://everlastingspew.bandcamp.com/album/ecstatic-death-reign
 
 This article makes you laugh - it's absurd how #google and #meta have online advertising so sewn up - and then cry... What can be done about these bullies?

#adtech #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism 

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-shatter-ad-tech 
 Some #halloween fun: the monsters of #surveillancecapitalism 

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/real-monsters-street-level-surveillance