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The harsh reality is privacy became a commodity, and due to overabundance it is relatively cheap. Even apparent competitors sell each other marketing data in th
by Joel_Mckay 3y ago
The harsh reality is privacy became a commodity, and due to overabundance it is relatively cheap. Even apparent competitors sell each other marketing data in this ecosystem.
If you want to participate in the modern economy, than you need to assume there is never any isolation. Even creeps with phones will show up taking photos on private property, as some app paid them $5 to risk their lives trespassing.
Mozilla Firefox collects beacon telemetry with a UUID by default (as does most browsers). While there is a lot of community goodwill around the popular browser, most are not technically advanced enough to mitigate the dozens of defaults that do not respect user privacy.
Additionally, most modern OS are just a crude sales funnel for OEM products and services. Technically, tying and racketeering with a computer is still illegal, but cultural norms have shifted expectations on corporate conduct.
This is the modern web, and arguably it was a mistake =)
- JohnFen 3y ago> This is the modern web, and arguably it was a mistake Agreed. Although I say it differently: the web is dead. It has been thoroughly transformed into a hostile place optimized for commerce and surveillance. As such, it is no longer really capable of doing the things that used to make it great.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoSir Tim Berners-Lee said the Web 'failed instead of served humanity'. He claimed to be "devastated" by abuses of the web. I find this profoundly tragic. But also affirming that a respected source of wisdom aligns with my own "truth". So, maybe it's not too hyperbolic to say the "Web is dead" if it is dead to it's own creator. Some of whatever it was lives on, in ideas and values of a minority. We cannot wind it back, or rebuild it on the sewer it now is. For the rest, who know no better, it is a horrible, horrible place. What we might usefully teach children are the many other ways to use computers and the internet, as local oracles, as peer to peer technologies, through networks on other protocols.
- troyvit 3y ago> The harsh reality is privacy became a commodity, Yep. Almost every CMP and privacy statement accidentally confirms that: "We value your privacy!" Yeah you value my privacy. You want to own it.
- jareklupinski 3y agoreal "to serve man" vibes
- m463 3y ago:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man
- Obscurity4340 3y agoThe value your privacy like the wolf values your mutton