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I'd add to your list: being aware of how this data is used and thinking before interacting with algorithmic content & advertising. Having worked in advertising

by altacc 4y ago

I'd add to your list: being aware of how this data is used and thinking before interacting with algorithmic content & advertising. Having worked in advertising during a younger & less jaded period of my life, knowing the aims and tactics they use helps reduce their effectiveness. Eliminating tracking for other, more nefarious uses, is very difficult and largely impractical against a motivated enough opponent. This is where we need governments to reign in corporate interests and human rights & privacy advocates to reign in the governments as much as possible, as they will happily increase surveillance as much as they can, in the name of security and a quite life.

autoexec 4y ago
> Having worked in advertising during a younger & less jaded period of my life, knowing the aims and tactics they use helps reduce their effectiveness. It's best to be aware of what they're doing and how, but I'm not sure how much it helps protect us. I can't seem to find it now, but I'm pretty sure I've seen research saying that awareness doesn't offer much defense. Our brains are simply susceptible to certain attacks and like an optical illusion that can't be unseen even when you know what's wrong, we're still influenced to some degree by the kinds of manipulations commonly used by advertisers.