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Meh. Houses still have windows, and people still have binoculars, but we seem to get by fine with blinds. Tape over your webcam, unplug Alexa, or turn off you
by username223 8y ago
Meh. Houses still have windows, and people still have binoculars, but we seem to get by fine with blinds. Tape over your webcam, unplug Alexa, or turn off your phone if you want more privacy.
More importantly, there is a social norm that you don't look through people's windows with binoculars. Of course police, spies, or creeps might do it, but that's incredibly rare. Unfortunately, the social norm (and business model) of the modern web is that companies build ever-more-powerful binoculars to constantly stare. That's the real problem we need to fix.
- rolph 8y agothen give them something quite indigestible and toxic to stare at rather than a blank nothing.
- Mediterraneo10 8y ago> unplug Alexa, or turn off your phone if you want more privacy. Fully turning off either means have to wait for the devices to boot up whenever you want to actually use them. That time adds up. A mic kill switch would allow the device to be immediately used at the flick of that switch.