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I put all my personal data on eBay

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Re: I put all my personal data on eBay

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Post by tomrod »

milbow wrote: post #94
X6S1x6Okd1st wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a couple companies that are working in that space: https://datacoup.com/ https://datawallet.com/#protect A more detailed reddit thread about them: https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/comments/8btjah/16_passiv...

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I use the brave browser in mobile but have everything blocked. Where can I learn more depth about this?

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Post by amdavidson »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #110
rb808 wrote: post #85

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lol this is great http://flopstarter.com/1dprinter/

If you could print very light lines and the costs were very low, I'd be interested. As someone who works a lot with handwritten formulas and pencil & paper sketches, I'm constantly annoyed by how strongly lines and squares are printed on paper. It's distracting and there is no need for it.

As someone who shares the same frustration with normal graph paper, check out a Rhodia Dot Pad.

Re: I put all my personal data on eBay

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Post by blackoil »

sytelus wrote: post #97
nneonneo wrote: post #30

Context: this fellow (Oli Frost) is something of a social media satirist, having previously built LifeFaker ( http://lifefaker.com/ , a place to buy your way to Instagram fame), and Flopstarter ( http://flopstarter.com/ , a Kickstarter clone for terrible ideas). I found the latest idea pretty funny - actually trying to monetize your data instead of letting companies do it for you is kind of a cute turnabout. In any c…

This is not a satire. I can easily see a service where people can simple upload their FB data and the service bundles it up in to groups of 10,000 for sell, takes 30% cut and distributes rest of the proceeds. There are tons of folks who have most of their posts public on FB would be willing to do this. There are companies who wants to model users, train/test algorithms would be willing to pay for it.

How will it be verified if profile is real or fake?

Re: I put all my personal data on eBay

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Post by bobwaycott »

ianai wrote: post #104
X6S1x6Okd1st wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a couple companies that are working in that space: https://datacoup.com/ https://datawallet.com/#protect A more detailed reddit thread about them: https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/comments/8btjah/16_passiv...

So maybe in the future we accept payment upfront for our privacy or through incideously free services.

I believe you meant insidiously? Not sure why you make it sound so sinister.

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Post by igolden »

nneonneo wrote: post #30

Context: this fellow (Oli Frost) is something of a social media satirist, having previously built LifeFaker ( http://lifefaker.com/ , a place to buy your way to Instagram fame), and Flopstarter ( http://flopstarter.com/ , a Kickstarter clone for terrible ideas). I found the latest idea pretty funny - actually trying to monetize your data instead of letting companies do it for you is kind of a cute turnabout. In any c…

LifeFaker cracked me up - thanks for sharing.

"Being able to pretend I rode an elephant in Thailand really helped my confidence"

Re: I put all my personal data on eBay

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Post by isthatart »

irregular-john wrote: post #37

Absolutely a serious question here: what is the big deal with companies e.g. Facebook and Google using your data for profit? These companies provide services that you , a user of their platforms, want. Providing those services is not free, and yet the prevailing sentiment across the internet seems to be, "Wow, I can't believe FB was using my data to sell me ads!"

Please post the list of all sites you visited in the past year and you'll get an absolutely serious answer.

Re: I put all my personal data on eBay

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Post by paulpauper »

incompatible wrote: post #69
jacquesm wrote: post #6

Selling your personal data as an individual is not going to work (yes, I understand this is a joke posting). If your data has to be re-imported into the various systems that normally exchange consumer profiles (advertising platforms for instance) it will be a net loss, besides that the chances of you hitting one of the properties is nil. So without the association between your profile and your online presence that da…

With a current bid of £113.00, it's working fine.

now at 300
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