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been tracking the ORBs along with TrashFuture. not good.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not making a judgement call on “orb” (which I assume is using some privacy preserving biometrics but honestly not sure), but why not leverage mobile devices? It seems like a lot of extra steps to use dedicated hardware for something like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Makes no sense. Am I supposed to run out and buy a new piece of equipment just to log into Reddit? 🙄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I guess Reddit is just one more of what they wish would be a standard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It definitely isnt. The explicit purpose is to harvest identifiable biometric data