Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIs it wrong to sell your Reddit account?message-squaremessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up179arrow-down1message-squareIs it wrong to sell your Reddit account?Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAidan@lemm.eecakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up94arrow-down1·1 year agoThey sell your data and don’t feel bad. Why should you feel bad about selling your data?
minus-squareArchpawn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 year agoYou’re not selling your account so they can datamine reddit. You’re selling it so that they can put ads on Reddit that look like a user commenting. Which is also a thing Reddit does.
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoNot necessarily. Some if them use them to post malicious links to sites that will steal your credit card data or try to attack you.
minus-squareinsomniac@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThere’s probably more money in just doing that directly
They sell your data and don’t feel bad. Why should you feel bad about selling your data?
You’re not selling your account so they can datamine reddit. You’re selling it so that they can put ads on Reddit that look like a user commenting. Which is also a thing Reddit does.
Not necessarily. Some if them use them to post malicious links to sites that will steal your credit card data or try to attack you.
There’s probably more money in just doing that directly
^ this.
“Do as bad as they do.”