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The article presents a spectrum, dismisses both extremes, and advocates that people aim for the middle. The problem is, you may think you are hanging out in the
by jefftk 5y ago
The article presents a spectrum, dismisses both extremes, and advocates that people aim for the middle. The problem is, you may think you are hanging out in the middle, but you probably have much less privacy than you think you do. Even if you are making the right choices for today, you can't trust that the future will keep things private (advances in ML, ubiquitous surveillance) and you don't know that futures isn't here yet.
Personally, I hang out at the fully open end of that spectrum. This has worked out pretty well for me; I don't think I've run into any downsides.
- Tepix 5y agoI think we have to ask ourselves: What do we want to achieve by protecting our online identity? For me, escaping the pervasive tracking and profiling by FAANG is one goal. I'm sure that tracking me across the internet is a lot more difficult (not impossible) than tracking the average user. Hopefully it can't be done in an automated fashion. That way tracking me is hopefully just not worth doing just for a few advertising dollars.