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Latest: Signal Pollution
Very recently I was forced to sign up to Meta due to a product purchase (don't at-me!) and I had forgotten what it was like to be part of the algorithms. Our entire family browse the internet (the web and internet) from behind a DNS proxy that blocks a lot of social media including Facebook/Meta/Insta/whatever it's actually called.
Unblocking these different services just to get a physical product to work (naively I thought it worked mostly offline) felt like I was exposing myself to a pretty gross network.
Then had to make an account for my child, whom if there were over the age of 10 and under the age of 13, could be managed under my account. Once they turned 13 (in the eyes of Meta) they were completely unrestricted (which I've got A LOT to say about, but I digress).
This combined with having already having to lift the protection I had in place was too much. I quickly deleted both accounts and parked the problem for the day.
After some reflection, I decided that I would create a single account, that we'd all share that way at least I could monitor all activity and the data Meta collected would be (hopefully) extremely mixed due to different people using the account.