 
 Alt text: I’m the philosopher until someone hands me a burrito.- I’m the sage and the nihilist at the same time 
 
- Like yeah, I disable cookies and use an ad blocker, but I’m not building my own Linux distro, paying for six VPNs, and using TOR just too look at the Terraria wiki. - Is this a reference to recent Lemmy drama? If so, I get it!! - Well, don’t keep it to yourself, what’s the recent Lemmy drama? - Look into the “search engine to compete with DDG” post - Darn, I was hoping it was some inexplicable Terraria drama :P - Thanks 
 
 
 
 
- If I can’t earn money for doing nothing they shouldn’t either. I fight back every way I can. That’s why it’s important to protect your privacy. 
- I seriously think that they litelarly have no idea what to do with that much data. I mean, personalized ads, yeah, sure, but other than that… crimes maybe… can’t really see any other use for it… - I’d imagine it’s not practical to do anything on a personal level (aside from personalized ads) unless you really wanna look into one person in particular, so it’s probably more used for market research and whatnot. Easier to do a survey if you don’t have to ask anyone. - Personalized ads aren’t even practical. I’m not careful with data about me, and the targeted ads I see suck. If Google knows so much about me, they really ought to be better at it 
- Yeah, but still… is there so much money in surveys to actually keep all of that data? 
 
 
- Random wrong place I know, but dont wanna bother more people then necessary: Why cant i see upvotes/downvotes? - Did you perhaps accidentally disable it on your account settings? 
- Afaik instance’s have the ability to deactivate that. - So either that or you have it disabled in your account settings - Third possiblity: your app/frontend just doesn’t pull the data for that 
- I read in some other post that some lemmy instances display the upvote/downvote ratio since the latest software update, so maybe because of that? 
- Can’t give a precise answer since I’m on an app that might bypass that, but either your instance or the instance you’re viewing can disable viewing votes. 
 






