We do not need to work with Facebook and companies like them. We do not need to compromise with them. We need to starve them. Complex cryptography to try to mak

We do not need to work with Facebook and companies like them. We do not need to compromise with them. We need to starve them. Complex cryptography to try to make less bad ads feels like a nicotine patch when what we need is pictures of lung cancer on the cigarette boxes and laws that forbid addicting children. We need education so people enable ad blocking until online advertising ceases to be as viable of a business model. Surveillance capitalism corps must be forced to adapt and start charging people for the value they provide in a clear and honest way instead of trying to sell human psyche hacking as a service like a globally adopted casino of profit optimized manipulation. One we all let our kids participate in. People pay money for coffee. They can pay a tiny bit for bandwidth for use of Social Media like any other SaaS. Maybe if it costs a tiny bit people will ration their use of it a bit more and use their extra time to go learn something useful.