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You used the first person pronoun a lot there. Do you yourself actually feel that you are short-sighted and that you consistently underestimate the value of yo
by aetherson 7y ago
You used the first person pronoun a lot there. Do you yourself actually feel that you are short-sighted and that you consistently underestimate the value of your data? Or are you putting yourself in the place of a hypothetical other person?
- loup-vaillant 7y agoHypothetical. The post I replied to used "I" and "you", so I used "you" and "I". That said, I genuinely don't know how much my data is worth…
- aetherson 7y agoI ask because people are often very quick to suppose that they are part of the educated elite but other people need them to protect them from their own bad choices. Do you, for example, not use Google because you are concerned they are getting too good a deal from you? Duck Duck Go exists.
- loup-vaillant 7y agoI use DuckDuckGo, and only fairly rarely fall back to Google. My Gmail account is dormant, I set up my own mail server. But I still have an Android phone…