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# Usage:
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users              View list of users and latest twt date.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt                View all twts.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri  View all mentions for uri.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash         View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
#     uri     Filter to show a specific users twts.
#     offset  Start index for quey.
#     limit   Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 8
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/3ijpiva
slashdot
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T-Mobile Has Started Selling Your App Data To Advertisers
T-Mobile has just officially launched its new ad platform, known as T-Mobile Advertising Solutions. That innocuous name hides a rather sketchy business model -- it aggregates your mobile application usage and sells it to advertisers. Android Police reports: The specifics of the program will sound familiar to anyone who has followed the ebb and flow of browser t ... ⌘ Read more
prologic
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@slashdot so fucking disgusting. Advertising based business models really need to be banned 🤬
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@slashdot so fucking disgusting. Advertising based business models really need to be banned 🤬
thecanine
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@prologic Selling data should, but not advertising itself. If it was, most free to use sites/apps would have to go with some kind of a paid subscription of beg for donations even more agressively.

I know it's a bit hypothetical coming from me, with my relatively agressive adblocking settings, but I was fine with ads, before they became the intrusive privacy nightmare, that they are now.
prologic
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@thecanine You will note I specifically said "advertising based business models" 🤗
prologic
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@thecanine You will note I specifically said "advertising based business models" 🤗
prologic
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@thecanine The problem with these types of business models is that the user becomes a commodity and information becomes a weapon. #targeted #advertising
prologic
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@thecanine The problem with these types of business models is that the user becomes a commodity and information becomes a weapon. #targeted #advertising