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Can instance admins see users' history of visited post? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Zeth0s@reddthat.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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As we are concerned about privacy, I am curious just to understand if lemmy can be at some point exploited by someone to profile its users.

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somehow the server has to be able to look up the user's subscriptions so it knows what posts to show them.

[–] Zeth0s@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

I am mainly thinking about matching navigation history with identifiable information... You are right, It's a tricky thing...

I also wonder, if lemmy becomes a thing, with numbers in the same order of magnitude of reddit, if and how gdpr will affect server admins... Having a privacy anonymization tool built in by design might avoid headaches on the long term