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Whenever someone mentioned these services to me, I would respond that I didn't trust them, and was often called paranoid. Maybe I just don't trust large companies with my most private data, and I don't know why others would.
The usual retort I heard is because someone in your extended family probably did take a DNA test at some point they "practically already have yours." At least that's what redditors parroted all the time.
I don't know if it is true, because I thought being a couple steps removed from your parents already renders most hereditary DNA unrelated. But I'm just a layman.
Regardless, it still wouldn't have been my choice to deliberately self own like that. Just turns me into an unwilling victim instead, much better /s.
Heres one of a distant cousin (related from a great great great grandfather)
Shit. Guess they had a point.