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No really most people don't care. Out of a group of 4 tech people that I spoke about privacy, one is concerned but won't go further than having an iPhone (even

No really most people don't care. Out of a group of 4 tech people that I spoke about privacy, one is concerned but won't go further than having an iPhone (even if he knows privacy is just marketing from Apple) and the others though they have the technical knowledge to make some changes really don't care. One even told me that he wished Google knew him better so some functionalities worked better for him. The non tech people don't even let me talk to them about privacy. I lost half my Whatsapp contacts that didn't want to install Signal. > But at $15/hr, even just an hour a week is $780 a year. That's real money. Please stop with this meme that every second of one's life is equal to some amount of money. For example I'm learning Flutter on my spare time right now. It doesn't cost me a dime because otherwise I would watch YouTube videos or some other unproductive activities. If you push it too far soon you're going to calculate how much sleep "costs" you!

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This is so different to the people I speak to in my region (not a tech center!). Most visible is push back against Facebook. During COVID, the local volunteer (mostly retirees) steam railway paid for and setup a good old emailing list, and not a Facebook group as many people seem to expect. At the most recent local election, a young candidate (who ended up winning a seat) in her platform had stated not using Facebook for communications and was even quoted as saying 'Fuck Facebook' from Q&A sessions. I have four elderly parents, none of whom use Facebook. During COVID, Zoom birthdays have taken over from face-to-face gatherings. While I have Signal installed, mostly people are sticking with SMS for messaging. One of the neighborhood groups uses Telegram. Google really means the search engine, email and Youtube. Nobody logs into Youtube and find it creepy when it remembers what they have been doing. It is not entirely like this, with a number of active community Facebook groups for things like 'free stuff' and 'want to buy/sell', and some businesses that are only online on Facebook, from when that was still cool. But it isn't cool any more.

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stubish 6y ago

This is so different to the people I speak to in my region (not a tech center!). Most visible is push back against Facebook. During COVID, the local volunteer (mostly retirees) steam railway paid for and setup a good old emailing list, and not a Facebook group as many people seem to expect. At the most recent local election, a young candidate (who ended up winning a seat) in her platform had stated not using Facebook for communications and was even quoted as saying 'Fuck Facebook' from Q&A sessions. I have four elderly parents, none of whom use Facebook. During COVID, Zoom birthdays have taken over from face-to-face gatherings. While I have Signal installed, mostly people are sticking with SMS for messaging. One of the neighborhood groups uses Telegram. Google really means the search engine, email and Youtube. Nobody logs into Youtube and find it creepy when it remembers what they have been doing. It is not entirely like this, with a number of active community Facebook groups for things like 'free stuff' and 'want to buy/sell', and some businesses that are only online on Facebook, from when that was still cool. But it isn't cool any more.