There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.

No one could have predicted this. /s

  • enkers
    0•1 month ago

    As curious as I was about my own ancestry, this is exactly why I never did it myself. Not that it matters, though. If any of your close relatives do it they’ll have a near match for you as well.

    • @[email protected]
      0•1 month ago

      I did it out of curiosity as well, not on 23andme though. Since I wanted to finish my grandfather’s history tree after his passing. He told me a lot about missing family ties because of two world wars Etc… the DNA data helped a lot.

    • @[email protected]English
      0•1 month ago

      Same! My gf begged me to do it. She made me feel like an asshole for not doing it. Called me crazy to think anything would happen. Well here we are!

      • FundMECFS
        0•1 month ago

        Apparently you can actually do it through the company that 23 and ME contracts. And that company has way better privacy policy.

        • @[email protected]English
          0•1 month ago

          To be fair, Facebook 2010 was peak and nowhere near the toxic environment it is today.

          I feel there’s an intuitive suspicion when it comes to DNA Ancestry companies.

          • @[email protected]English
            0•1 month ago

            Nah, peak was 2005-6 when it was just college students. You could suddenly find the best parties like it was nothing, homework answers were exchanged openly, neither your parents or siblings could access and see what was going on. Farmville style games came about in 2009, which is when the decline became apparent to me.