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why don't you guys scrobble? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by juli@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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From a privacy standpoint, i guess. I want to support open scrobbling with listenbrainz and the account isn't directly linked to a real acc. Why shouldn't I/ why don't you?

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Social engineering. The more information they have about you, the easier you are to immitate.

The threat isn't in any one piece of information about you; it's in the corpus of knowledge, the profile they can build. Your tastes in music - at the granularity of not only what you listen to, but how much, and at what times - can help narrow down:

how old you are
where (in the world, and maybe to the time zone) you live
your mother tongue
probably your socio-economic status

These are just the things I can tyink of off the top of my head, and I'm not in infosec.

[–] drkt@feddit.dk 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're gonna datamine way more than that on the fediverse but yeah sure.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Depends on how much you let them link it back to you, but you're absolutely right: social media is a privacy nightmare. It can be mitigated; pick a Lemmy instance that doesn't require an email, and don't give out any identifying information, or just lurk. Many of us have multiple accounts on different servers, with carefully segregated personas. You do what you can; OP asked why (or why not) scrob. I see no reason to give out that information, only to give a company more information they can sell.

[–] driveway@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

There are instances that doesn't require email?

[–] sibloure@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

All of that info is already available for anyone who has a government ID or census record