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Regarding exhausting, here's a quote from a different blog post of theirs describing how to avoid surveillance in person purchases: > I once took about 20 minu
by triyambakam 4y ago
Regarding exhausting, here's a quote from a different blog post of theirs describing how to avoid surveillance in person purchases:
> I once took about 20 minutes at a Target checkout trying to get enough cash from the till to buy Christmas gifts for my kids and nephews. Then there was the time I held a bunch of kids' books at the counter at Barnes and Noble and drove around for 15 minutes until I found an ATM open on a Sunday evening in NJ. Getting cash out before a kid-related purchase is basically second nature to me now.
- Asooka 4y agoATMs aren't 24/7 in the USA?
- JohnFen 4y agoI'm on board with paying cash, but this person was just doing it badly. A little planning ahead removes most of those problems.
- p1necone 4y agoYeah - this seems ridiculous, and defeats the goal of privacy too. If you pay for everything with cash surely it's much easier to just get a bulk amount of cash out periodically. If you go to the nearest ATM to withdraw just enough to buy whatever you're buying every time you're out that's almost as much information for someone trying to surveil you as if you'd paid with a card at the store. Also, getting the cash out at the till to buy stuff at the same store is even more pointless. That's just paying with your card with an annoying extra step.
- cyberlyra 4y agoOP here: For context, the cash is to stop corporate databases from knowing I have children. It's not for obfuscating everything. https://www.optoutproject.net/how-to-keep-your-pregnancy-private/ https://www.optoutproject.net/how-to-keep-your-pregnancy-pri...
- p1necone 4y agoThis makes more sense now. Targeted avoidance of a specific thing being tracked does indeed seem much more likely to have results.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoNew thread already! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34787255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34787255