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I have given up on privacy. Any steps I take to preserve my privacy are negated by my inactions of years past, the current actions of my friends and family, an

I have given up on privacy. Any steps I take to preserve my privacy are negated by my inactions of years past, the current actions of my friends and family, and the actions of my government That said… I use an adblocker because it makes the browsing experience better and I use Firefox because it makes me feel better about browsing the internet. I’m in the apple ecosystem which makes me feel slightly more private and occasionally use signal to have certain conversations with certain people Of course at the end of the day I know whatever I do doesn’t really matter and the worst thing that could happen is I get more targeted ads. Sure, I could get targeted by the government should it turn evil, but I don’t believe that online privacy would prevent that from happening anyways. I’m just not that interesting of a person so I take solace in that. Now that I’m writing this.. I’m non religious and I believe in the right to own firearms. These opinions could make me a target or make me more interesting to an evil government. I guess I just hope the checks and balances we have are enough.

raspyberr 4y ago
>inactions of years past Completely untrue. Data becomes less valuable as time goes on to the point that it becomes worthless.
- ataru 4y ago
  It is valuable, you can tell because companies like Google and Facebook have no intention to automatically forget old data, instead they are intent on keeping it forever. I expect they see data=money.
- shmoejoe 4y ago
  Does it? Even old data could be used to build a psychological profile on someone and be extrapolated to present day if I dropped off the map
andrepd 4y ago
>Any steps I take to preserve my privacy are negated by my inactions of years past, the current actions of my friends and family, and the actions of my government Well pester your friends and family to move to Signal and install uBlock on their browsers x)
- shmoejoe 4y ago
  Ha in a perfect world. Honestly I used to try and convince people to be careful about online privacy but I found it made people like me less

raspyberr 4y ago

>inactions of years past Completely untrue. Data becomes less valuable as time goes on to the point that it becomes worthless.

ataru 4y ago
It is valuable, you can tell because companies like Google and Facebook have no intention to automatically forget old data, instead they are intent on keeping it forever. I expect they see data=money.
shmoejoe 4y ago
Does it? Even old data could be used to build a psychological profile on someone and be extrapolated to present day if I dropped off the map

andrepd 4y ago

>Any steps I take to preserve my privacy are negated by my inactions of years past, the current actions of my friends and family, and the actions of my government Well pester your friends and family to move to Signal and install uBlock on their browsers x)

shmoejoe 4y ago
Ha in a perfect world. Honestly I used to try and convince people to be careful about online privacy but I found it made people like me less