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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My taxes already pay for the meteorology

Yeah, but it got privatized, so now you need to pay more money to a 3rd party to access the services you are already paying money to access.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And pay a 4th party to go around removing you from data broker lists, is the expectation

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah. That's an exercise in futility. You can't get that data back under wraps. The only solution is to obfuscate your data with noise.