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Even if you are informed, it's hard to take action. Running solely FLOSS software is an option, but this is very impractical for many use cases, so your options
by Tijdreiziger 4y ago
Even if you are informed, it's hard to take action. Running solely FLOSS software is an option, but this is very impractical for many use cases, so your options are essentially 'make your life harder to preserve privacy' or 'privacy is dead'.
- seabird 4y agoYou don't have to solely run FLOSS software. There's a lot of middle ground between between walking into the TikTok/Meta/Alphabet brain grinder for convenience's sake and Stallman-level fanaticism.
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoWell, do you have any suggestions? (earnest question) I have been thinking/reading about this a lot in the past months (to the detriment of my mental health, unfortunately), and it seems like even non-FLOSS operating systems are somewhat invasive when it comes to privacy, let alone the software you run on them.
- college_physics 4y agoFOSS is not a guarantee of privacy by any means. For example there is the confusion about mastodon / fediverse type social media and what sort of firewalls its creates, for posts, for direct messages etc. I think FOSS means there is more transparency about what is going on, which is very important but not the whole story.