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Originally Posted by gmw
Certainly the word paranoia has been used, also needing to live in a cave, also posts indicating the desire for privacy is laughable. None of that was demeaning?
But I don't really care about that. I was more concerned with the idea that we have no choice, that if we want to be online at all then our privacy is lost completely. And one problem with this idea, besides being wrong, it doesn't have to be all or nothing, is that it alters how we might interpret the "don't care" response. Is it "I don't care enough to live off the grid", or is it "I don't care even if there are options that offer more control over my privacy", or some middle ground?
DiapDealer and a few others have indicated fairly clearly it is the latter, they like targeted advertising and are not concerned about the risks of abuse. But how widespread is? (Indeed, it begs the question of how useful targeted advertising actually is, but that's another discussion.)
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I’d say your own arguments prove you have a choice. Don’t like Google, use duck duck go. Don’t like gmail (which I suppose is really the same as the last but eh..) use proton mail. Clear your cookies regularly, though I’m sure you or someone else mentioned a security minded browser as well. Don’t like the tracking bits of social media don’t use social media or don’t connect it to something easily tracked back to you such as your name. Heck you don’t even need to give Twitter an email if you don’t want, occasionally you might need to force quit the app if it asks for one but that’s few and far between and you’re back in a second. Don’t like Alexa etc? Don’t use them.
Anything you can get off Amazon you can get elsewhere if you don’t trust Amazon.
But as Dd pointed out it’s going to be work for you (general you).