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Okay. I'll become less effective at my job, because the only search engine worth a darn is the second largest dataminer in the world. In fact, scratch that, I
by Karunamon 10y ago
Okay. I'll become less effective at my job, because the only search engine worth a darn is the second largest dataminer in the world.
In fact, scratch that, I won't even have internet access, because the ISP datamines me. Now I'm out of work and homeless.
No bank accounts either. The only stuff near me are instances of corporate banks that datamine my spending habits all to hell. Same for credit cards.
When you figure out how to do this "just don't do business with companies you don't like" thing in a way that doesn't turn me into a homeless pariah, please let me know.
- snickerbockers 10y ago>Okay. I'll become less effective at my job, because the only search engine worth a darn is the second largest dataminer in the world. Clearly the cost of losing your privacy is worth it to you because choose not to use competing services like duckduckgo that will respect your privacy. With respects to banks and ISPs, the major players in those industries support overregulation because they know it prevents smaller competitors from rising up and taking their business away with a superior product.
- Karunamon 10y agoProbably because I have a concrete notion of what "my privacy" entails, and I consciously don't place "things i'm typing in a search box to $company" in the "things $company shouldn't know about" box. On top of all that, there's the functional aspect as well. DDG's results plain and simply suck, and using a search engine out of principle is purely an exercise in self flagellation if I can't accomplish the goal I set out to do.