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At the risk of a tangent, the real problem with services like 23andMe isnt just that it has your (irrevokable) DNA or traits in it, its that they now have the DNA and traits of your entire extended family up and down the tree(s) to a significant degree. Using a service like that is essentially selling them out, and they have no say in it.

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My older brother was pissed that I sent it in. I had a potential cousin contact me via 23andMe and I asked my brother about some possible common relations. He thought that we were probably being scammed and that I was a reckless idiot.

Your brother is wise.

Same as using GMail without PGP. GMail users are selling out the the rest of our data to Google by having one side of that conversation. It’s the same reason I am generally against using a gateway between Discord & IRC/XMPP/Matrix.

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