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Meta Comment: Considering that Ars is mining their forum database and pissing off members/subscribers to post tabloid-style shaming articles about the NSA whist
by xradionut 13y ago
Meta Comment: Considering that Ars is mining their forum database and pissing off members/subscribers to post tabloid-style shaming articles about the NSA whistleblower, I believe the first step in privacy is to avoid visiting their web site ever again.
- Spooky23 13y agoActually, their approach was pretty reasonable. Another site did it before Ars did in a more tabloid manner.
- xradionut 13y agoAs a long term, now former subscriber, I have to disagree with you. It's all about the page clicks today, fuck the users.
- clicks 13y agoThat may be, but really... privacy is dead. It is pretty much impossible to not be outed out on every last forum you used to participate in when the whole world has an eye on you. If Ars hadn't done it, someone would have put the pieces together. In this day and age, to ensure 100% privacy you have to _really_ go out of your way. It's difficult for cypherpunks to pull it off, let alone normal users.
- untog 13y agoThey used publicly available quotes. Are we not allowed to post any negative coverage of Snowden now?