WTF? MetaMask Is Collecting Your Data: What You Need to Know & Do About It | Arthur Sabintsev @ Pocket Network | #121

Infura is collecting data from MetaMask users… Luckily we have
Arthur Sabintsev on to tell us exactly what this means, what data
is being collected and what we can do about it!


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GUEST INFO


Name: Arthur Sabintsev


Twitter: @ArtSabintsev - https://twitter.com/artsabintsev


Website: https://www.pokt.network/


How to Decentralize Your Metamask in 60 seconds:
https://twitter.com/poktnetwork/status/1595952883454939138?s=21


TIME POINTS


0:00 - Intro


7:10 - What happened with Infura and the data collection?


9:00 - How does Metamask work?


13:40 - What data is Infura collecting?


16:00 - What is a node?


17:46 - What are logging practices


20:35 - Why Arthur joined Pocket Network


26:00 - What is Pocket Network


33:10 - What to do if you don’t want to give your data to Infura


38:20 - Why did Infura choose to collect data?


48:15 - Is data collection needed?


54:00 - Pocket Network structure


55:50 - What’s going on at Pocket Network?


58:50 - Where to find Arthur


59:20 - Speed round