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More like two people having a conversation in the street, except one of them is screaming every word and you're just asking to please tone it down a bit, which
by Ultramanoid 8y ago
More like two people having a conversation in the street, except one of them is screaming every word and you're just asking to please tone it down a bit, which is too much to ask for that person.
- Spooky23 8y agoIn that scenario, the quiet guy doesn’t realize that there is a cable guy standing behind him listening as well.
- Ultramanoid 8y agoMail is not that private, that is not the point being argued, and why I offered the street conversation example. From the moment you communicate with someone else, you've lost control over the information. But there's a huge difference between that, and having every word you write plus all the info that can be inferred from that, recorded, stored forever, analyzed and re-analyzed, sold, exploited, misused, etc, by a hostile unscrupulous advertising company or its partners.
- Spooky23 8y agoIMO, you’re probably better off with Google or to a lesser extent Microsoft, as their model is about selling ads based on your information, and hoarding your data for competitive advantage. I assume that your cellular carrier and cable company are monetizing any bit of data they can capture and selling it for pennies to all sorts of parties.
- Ultramanoid 8y agoThere's a reasonable compromise to be found to live in a modern digital society. Otherwise, just move to a deserted tiny isolated island in the Pacific. One with a bit of higher ground. Climate change, et al.