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Personally I don't care about corperations tracking me because I can generally stop the tracking by avoiding their software and websites. For me Google tracking

Personally I don't care about corperations tracking me because I can generally stop the tracking by avoiding their software and websites. For me Google tracking me is a reasonable trade-off for free youtube and email, I can always install a clean copy of Firefox and LineageOS if I want. I don't generally do things online (or in person) that I'm worried about Google tracking. I am worried about the government tracking me, because they have the ability to legally required me to be tracked, giving me no way of avoiding it if I ever have a need to do something privately. And the consequences of the government tracking me all the time are much higher, since they can put me in prison, or put me on some watchlist.

lukifer 6y ago
> Personally I don't care about corperations tracking me because I can generally stop the tracking While I generally agree with your perspective here, it's worth noting [a] even if one eschews all services of tech giants, one is still tracked in practice through one's social network, such as through photo recognition or sending an email to gmail.com; and [b] the number of people who actually jump through the hoops required to live free of FAANG effectively rounds to zero. The extreme imbalance of power between corp and netizen may not be as stark as between fed and citizen (the monopoly on force involves deleting accounts and predictive analytics rather than decades in a cage), but it should be concerning all the same.