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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Spotify wrapped started this trend seems other apps are following through. Seeing a summary of things you did with there app. Kind of gives you a hint how much other things are being tracked.

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[–] electric@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Isn't that just basic data they already kept track of?

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

Not really sure what you mean basic but if tracking someone's clicks on certain button, or features and can be traced back to you. It's actually kind off putting so much for making your information anonymise which most companies claim.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

But "wrapped" type things aren't using button press telemetry. They're using data that the user wants access to anyways, like their Spotify play history, or Duolingo lesson progress.

It doesn't even make sense to anonymize that data because people want to see their play history, not what was popular last week.

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