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Yes, it’s a given on HN that someone will complain about privacy. I wrote this blog about the “groundhog day” comments back in September. https://h4labs.wordp

• ryandrake 9y ago
  In order to understand, try replacing "privacy" in your blog response with some other thing that you care deeply about. I believe the most straightforward way to normalize something you believe is wrong is to simply give up and stop calling it out as wrong. That said, if people think my viewpoint does not add to the conversation, I accept downvotes with grace.
• icebraining 9y ago
  Your post ignores the social effects of technology. In the early 20th century, someone complaining about cars could be told the same - after all, cars were still rare, they couldn't annoy you that much if you just didn't get one. Fast forward a few decades, and now they're impossible to avoid, and often there is realistic alternative if you don't want to uproot your life. This is because by their expansion, they shaped society until they were impossible to avoid. Similar thing happen to cellphones: in the 80s, if you complained that you didn't like that they allowed the provider to track your position, you could just be told not to get one. Nowadays, that decision is not nearly as easy, since many jobs expect you to be reachable at all times (e.g. those with "dynamic" working hours). A person building a DIY for personal use is fine. A company pushing a device to every home they can get it into can't be that easily ignored.