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Ancestraity test. What's the best one out there? Which one have you tried? Are you happy with your results?(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Please elaborate on what you want to discuss and why you are considering getting an ancestry test, as it stands this opening post is soykaf and Rule 4 violation.)

>On a cyberpunk culture board >Hey I wanna give my DNA to a megacorp

>Please elaborate on what you want to discuss I want to discuss about ancestrality tests, from the very conception of it, if the results are trustworthy that kind of thing. >and why you are considering getting an ancestry test Well, that's kind of obvious, isn't it? Find out my genetic lineage. >as it stands this opening post is soykaf and Rule 4 violation My bad, it's my first post here and I'm not familiar with the board yet. >>30529 That's the point, the ideia is not giving my DNA to a megacorp.

>>30529 this. Read for example: https://stallman.org/ancestry.html and https://www.theguardian [DOT] com/commentisfree/2020/feb/16/dna-hugely-valuable-health-tech-privacy >inb4 linking the guardian

even if DNA ancestry tests weren't blatant attempts to harvest your genetic data and sell it to pharmacorps, they're still completely fuarrrking pointless. Who cares if you're 1% Armenian? In what world could that possibly matter? The only legitimate use case for these is screening for genetic illnesses.

>>30533 >Who cares if you're 1% Armenian? Well, I do know plenty of people who do care, man. >In what world could that possibly matter? Your life perhaps. >The only legitimate use case for these is screening for genetic illnesses. I'm willing to pay for that.

>>30534 >Well, I do know plenty of people who do care, man. It was a rhetorical question, the point being that it is stupid to care about that. >>In what world could that possibly matter? >Your life perhaps. No.

None of them are accurate. It is a scam. https://www.medicaldaily.com/dna-ancestry-tests-are-meaningless-your-historical-genealogy-search-244586 >>30534 >>The only legitimate use case for these is screening for genetic illnesses. >I'm willing to pay for that If you need to do this, go through a healthcare professional that is qualified to do it and bound by healthcare privacy laws to at least be better with your data than some scam company. But unless you have compelling reason to do it (e.g. your recent ancestors (parents, grandparents) suffered from sudden death from a disease that was undetectable without genetic testing), you really shouldn't bother. Just live healthily and get a physical every year. No need to spook yourself by looking into all the possible afflictions you may be slightly more predisposed to than the average person.

>>30529 They essentially already do because if any family members have it they basically can guess a big portion of your DNA sequence. There should be laws protecting DNA on these databases like how there is medical confidentiality laws and it should fall inder that already.

>>30537 >trusting the law to protect you >on a cyberpunk imageboard

Those tests are a truth teller visit for science TM believers because they actually cant be certain on specific markers and so they make soykaf up for the ambiguous parts based on sounds most interesting to increase sales. The biggest number is fine. If they say you're 90% X that's a safe bet but all the soykaf listed below 50+ is guess work based on "you cant proof we are wrong" not there's evidence we are right.

>>30528 You gain no real benefit from the results and you give away a ton of information to big corpo that we may not even completely understand yet. If you absolutely want to do it, then do what >>30536 suggested. Besides, consider this: what does it even mean if you're, let's say, 3% Greek? If this means modern Greek, then they themselves are a collection of a bunch of people from other parts of the world. People have and will always move and these tests only go so far, if they're even accurate. There is no point, lainon. You're you and your ancestors are dead. You are the result of human expansion and you should focus your efforts in becoming good to your fellow humans regardless of where they come from. We're all related in some way.

I have several family members that have done these tests. One of them in particular, who is very closely related to me, has provided pretty much all additional information they ask for (optional forms that the PAYING CUSTOMER fills out, providing the company with accurate information for practically no benefit to the customer). Short of locating their servers and degaussing their drives, and the backups, and the backups of the backups, is there any way to pull the data? I already know that the answer is no, but maybe there's some hope that I don't know about. My family does not understand that even if the data cannot be used against them NOW, there can emerge some adversary that they didn't predict. Whether that happens a year from now, 10 years from now, or never, we cannot say until it does (or doesn't) happen. I've also tried to explain that when they see stuff like "0.1% Native American" or pretty much anything below the primary result, it's unreliable fluff, but such words die on empty ears. >>30541 You can get shown people that are related to you. That's important to some people- the vast majority of which would be quite unable to locate such relatives on their own (mostly due to lack of trying, not lack of resourcefulness).