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I too subscribe to the idea it's the collection of data that invades privacy not (just) usage. It used to be more widespread. But as software people there are
by dogleash 1y ago
I too subscribe to the idea it's the collection of data that invades privacy not (just) usage. It used to be more widespread. But as software people there are traitor in our ranks. People who decided to become conman to justify abusing others and perpetuate lies that it's all benign. All in the name of maximixing data exfiltration so they could get in on the scam. Plenty of money to be made, after all. And such big servers to play with too.
- verisimi 1y agoWhich software isn't selling out privacy? PS even something like signal (presuming things are as private as we are told) encourages phone usage, which is very leaky. I'm struggling to think of benign software - I guess linux etc could be considered as that.
- throw-qqqqq 1y ago> Which software isn't selling out privacy? None of the software I’ve authored or contributed to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- genewitch 1y agoI don't even keep web logs 90% of the time. Logrotate puts the zips in /tmp I barely make users enter an email. What I do won't scale but I can sleep at night.
- zzo38computer 1y agoMany people (although not most of them, it seems), including myself, are designed to not sell out privacy (and also to avoid some of the other problems that are common in modern software).