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I still dont understand why there is basically no service today who protecta my privacy, even if I am willing to pay. Like facebook or whatsapp. I would pay mo
by zwaps 8y ago
I still dont understand why there is basically no service today who protecta my privacy, even if I am willing to pay.
Like facebook or whatsapp. I would pay monthly if they would stop aggregating and analyzing my every move. Hell, even for amazon, i know that if I buy anything, even look at anything, it gets thrown into my profile and aggregated. I dont even dare to use anything by Google... It may be paranoid, but all these models and their fitting of conditional expectations will force me to conform eventually.
For me, machine learning, especually with these data, in health, insurance, credit and career are seriously scary prospects. Maybe because i am a statistician...
I have money, but there is just no way to escape the profiling.
My hope is that when the consequences hit the billionaires, perhaps there will be market for privacy concious services.
I used to be so positive about technology. Now i feel like tech companies and start ups just try to bs and deceive us. Almost no one is honest about what is collected, and privacy statements have become meaningless catch all allowences...
If it ever backfires, like here, lets be clear that amazon, facebook, google and co have only themselves to blame for their despicable and exploitative behavior
- thecleaner 8y agoFor messaging use Signal. For email use Proton Mail. For dumbass social media use one of the scuttlebutt apps or that decentralized twitter clone - Mastodon. For useful social media subscribe to good subreds on reddit or HN or just grab a book from the bookstore. I think we may even come up with different stacks of apps just as we have stacks for web dev. Like this one could be called PBRS - protonmail, books, reddit, scuttlebutt. Would be awesome if we could propose a few more.
- slowmovintarget 8y agoBecause you can't pay what other organizations are willing to pay for your information.