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The proliferation of spyware has become unbearable. You cannot anymore use any app or service - even the paid ones - without having to worry that any of your da
by protoman3000 6y ago
The proliferation of spyware has become unbearable. You cannot anymore use any app or service - even the paid ones - without having to worry that any of your data is being collected. And no, reading through piles of TOS and privacy disclaimers is not gonna solve this.
Users must gain control back and opt-in must be the default.
- mpol 6y agoFull Open Source and Libre software will be a solution, as it has always been. Is there any other real solution, besides emotional rhetoric? I don't believe regulation will really help, they will just skirt the lines and have lots of oopses.
- protoman3000 6y ago> Full Open Source and Libre Software will be a solution I'm all in for FOSS but in the current state of the infrastructure that would just swap reading TOS to reading source. It just is not feasible for every single user. The alternative is crowd trust but that problem tends to be solved naturally by institutionalization, which brings other requirements such as organization and solving monetary problems. What we need is a change in infrastructure. Why is it allowed that IP addresses are geolocated in the first place? Why do browsers share the name of your graphics adapter by default? Why is the user agent not abolished?