My grandma's handwritten recipes don't sell my data like apps do.

Online cooking sites know too much about my kitchen habits.

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Tracking your butter use is actually kind of crazy when you say it out loud. They're building a profile on how much fat you put in your cookies. That's a level of detail nobody needs to know.

ramirez.logan1mo ago

My grandma's cookie recipe from 1972 is on a stained index card. It never asked for my location or what I bought last week. Those cooking apps probably know how much butter I use in a month. Why would I want them watching my every move?

markhall1mo ago

Yeah, the butter thing is weird, but honestly that's probably not the main data they want. When you mention location and what you bought, that's the real target. They'd rather know you searched a cookie recipe, then drove to a specific store, and bought their brand of chocolate chips. That link between your phone and your real world shopping is way more valuable than your actual recipe.