@mastodonmigration to these 'oh it's just analytics' types -
User behaviour is a fucking gold mine. Stop pretending it isn't.

The data collection is equally valuable whether its Doubleclick scraping it, or its bluesky. If anything they are being shrewd with their 'product' and likely to profit more from it.

Yeah, now we dont get to see who the buyers of said analytics are. State actors? Religious Groups? Political interests?

Theres no rational reason for this aggressive tracking on ALL users

@mastodonmigration Oh it became pretty evident to me during my short stay on Bluesky

On average, after about ten minutes of browsing -
uBlock will show 100-150 various trackers being blocked. I've seen the count go over 300.

Crap sites like RawStory always ran the numbers up, but in the amount of time browsing - They may be one of the top-100 worst data aggregators out there.
They are selling that user base outright.

@NanoRaptor Erasmus and Ominus may have some opinions about that.
But largely, yes.

@jalefkowit You have an odd way of promoting favorite media..

@wdlindsy We are mostly saying the same thing.
Perhaps in nuance, but those 'church values' aren't anything original to the SBC. They were adopted.

Their conduct, and what causes they support in the public sphere are.

I won't denigrate Carter for having such values, as he's one of the few that actually practiced Christ's teachings, rather than use it as a wedge to divide people

@wdlindsy I think people would be more challenged by identifying a single altruistic, social-good the Southern Baptist Church has ever performed?