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>>wut42+(OP)
> “This is the latest chapter in a disturbing trend where we see government agencies increasingly transforming search warrants into digital dragnets. It’s unconstitutional, it’s terrifying and it’s happening every day,” said Albert Fox-Cahn, executive director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.

If companies would respect the spirit behind GDPR and not store data that is not needed to fulfill a user's requests and protect the data that they must have in a way that makes dragnet searches impossible, this would not be a problem.

Instead, we have sites not being ashamed in informing you about literally thousands of external ad broker, tracking, notifications and whatnotelse integrations.

To u/decremental: you seem to be shadowbanned, here's an Archive link: https://archive.ph/kAXQ1

>>mschus+k3
> If companies would respect the spirit behind GDPR and not store data that is not needed to fulfill a user's requests and protect the data that they must have in a way that makes dragnet searches impossible, this would not be a problem.

Saving user watch history is useful for users. Sure, make it optional, but I find it really useful that youtube shows me if I've already watched a video, and that I can find recently seen videos in my watch history.

>>loeg+k5
Any client software can do this for the users who want it. There is no need for the service provider to track user watch history on the server by default.

>>alison+U7
I’m sure it might be useful if your primary business is something like, oh let’s say, delivering advertisements based on users preferences and behaviour.

>>transc+u8
At the end of the day the recommendation algo is why tiktok grew so fast and is so sticky, users want the companies to remember stuff, just not to use that memory against them (ya right)