@strypey @rick_777 *checks* Nope, these posts are not encrypted and are publicly available so I can’t see how posting on the #fediverse would protect you from datamining. Search engines… yes, I‘ve vague memories of using Altavista back in the days when I wrote web apps in C… I hear there’s a new Bad Boy in town now… Foogle? Doodle? *checks his tracker-hunting web crawler*… oh, yes, Google!
PS. Crawling public content and third-party tracking are separate things.