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I consider myself very privacy conscious, bordering on the paranoid. I use FOSS as much as possible, avoid FAANG, and remove surveillance from my life wherever

I consider myself very privacy conscious, bordering on the paranoid. I use FOSS as much as possible, avoid FAANG, and remove surveillance from my life wherever I can. This tool shocked me. It exposes in a visceral way just how prevalent Google is, and does a better job getting that idea across than every video, article, post or comment I've consumed on the topic.

kleer001 4y ago
As a counter point (and you're not wrong, this is just my take)... I consider myself privacy and security and convenience conscious, not at all paranoid yet as I don't expect I have aroused the interest of a State power (touch wood). I use what most people use and prefer less friction over philosophically and/or ethically pure services. This tool made me shrug. Sure, yea, that's not an unexpected frequency, I guess. I haven't personally seen any disaster come from data shared to be sold or used for advertising. Mostly all I get advertized are things I've already bought (rolls eyes) or things I've said out loud (scowls). The hit rate for something I've been "told" to buy is like 0.001% The last hit was Dan Ariely's IRRATIONAL Game. Pretty cool, no? https://irrationalgame.com/ https://irrationalgame.com/
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- legacynl 4y ago
  "Rationally/ethically X sounds dangerous and bad, but I haven't seen any widespread disaster resulting from X, therefore X is fine/good enough, so I just try to not think about the ways X is bad and unethical"
  - kleer001 4y ago
    No. I never stated my ethics. I was only echoing the comment above, the statement of their ethics. Working your way through life requires heuristics and stereotypes based on our personal experience. If you have to think about which muscle to move and when while walking you'll fall down. If you want to sacrifice your ability to move quickly through the world to dogmatism, knock yourself out. I'm going to stick with fluency and real time behaviour that allows me to act in the world in a timely matter.
- handity 4y ago
  Paranoid was maybe the wrong word. I am not worried about anything in particular happening to me, but I know that mass surveillance is bad in principal, so I oppose it.

kleer001 4y ago

As a counter point (and you're not wrong, this is just my take)... I consider myself privacy and security and convenience conscious, not at all paranoid yet as I don't expect I have aroused the interest of a State power (touch wood). I use what most people use and prefer less friction over philosophically and/or ethically pure services. This tool made me shrug. Sure, yea, that's not an unexpected frequency, I guess. I haven't personally seen any disaster come from data shared to be sold or used for advertising. Mostly all I get advertized are things I've already bought (rolls eyes) or things I've said out loud (scowls). The hit rate for something I've been "told" to buy is like 0.001% The last hit was Dan Ariely's IRRATIONAL Game. Pretty cool, no? https://irrationalgame.com/ https://irrationalgame.com/

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legacynl 4y ago
"Rationally/ethically X sounds dangerous and bad, but I haven't seen any widespread disaster resulting from X, therefore X is fine/good enough, so I just try to not think about the ways X is bad and unethical"
- kleer001 4y ago
  No. I never stated my ethics. I was only echoing the comment above, the statement of their ethics. Working your way through life requires heuristics and stereotypes based on our personal experience. If you have to think about which muscle to move and when while walking you'll fall down. If you want to sacrifice your ability to move quickly through the world to dogmatism, knock yourself out. I'm going to stick with fluency and real time behaviour that allows me to act in the world in a timely matter.
handity 4y ago
Paranoid was maybe the wrong word. I am not worried about anything in particular happening to me, but I know that mass surveillance is bad in principal, so I oppose it.