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I'm starting to wonder if we the people need to begin creating a sousveilance system to track public officials and corporate heads.

• caconym_ 10y ago
  I really think what we need is to be willing to pay for the things we use so that we aren't aggressively productized for the benefit of the entities who cover that cost "for us". I stopped using Facebook not because I was worried about privacy (although that did help) but because it was just a waste of time. It wasn't doing anything positive for me. All the features that I had once enjoyed had been removed or drowned under a torrent of advertising and aggressively "curated" (calculatedly manipulative) content. Like, how about this: I pay $1 per month and I get a product that's actually built with me in mind, for my benefit, that I enjoy using. I recently switched to Fastmail (while I don't hate Gmail, it's not been great recently) and guess what: Fastmail is better, clearly more interested in catering to me, and it's dirt cheap. A product built for me... imagine that! Crazy talk, really, in today's ad-subsidized world.
  • xg15 10y ago
    Except that the ISPs, automakers, IoT venders, etc are tracking you too if they can get away with it. It's perfectly possible today to pay for a service and be the product.
    • wmccullough 10y ago
      Farmers buy new pigs all the time to raise up and slaughter.