DNA tests like 23andme

I'm mixed race and curious about my racial makeup, but I have heard that companies like 23andme or Ancestry can't be trusted.

What do you think? What's the worst they could do with my DNA info?

the problem is that there's a low confidence in lower value. so if your're are a 56% pure blood Euro-American goblin, that part will be reported correctly but all the information about you being 1/256th Cherokee are more guesswork than science

>>1
Do you actually believe Ethnicity X is homogeneous "100% pure X"?
Ethnicity is not a closed group, but a jumble of various genetic factors. Haplogroups and Gene "clusters" detection is just probabilities that X belongs to Y.

When you get 45% British -> British themselves are not a concrete ethnicity(they are a feature-set), they just point out that you having Gene clusters/Haplogroups more common(closer genetic distance) with "Average British Person"(they check against a reference gene set for people labeled "British"(often filtered by program to isolate feature-sets so it matches something like "the feature set of majority" that may exclude smaller ethnic sub-groups )).
The only certainty it has, determining the continent of origin.
Inside the continent, its much fuzzier and less precise.
Realistically, if company A "reference gene set" for British is different from company B, you'll get different percents(after all it just algorithms checking genetic distances to reference sets of all DNA in the database).

>>2,3
cool but my main concern is with privacy and shit, not your hot takes on race

>>4
The only people interested in this are /pol/ refugees.

>>5
cool but my main concern is with privacy and shit, not your hot takes on race

>>6
You pay them to take your DNA, basically
they definitely store it

>>7
And use your DNA to make profit.

>>8
How? Who would pay for it?

>>9
OP for example.

>>10
But do they sell it to third parties for data mining?