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I'm at a bit of a crossroad, and I'm not entirely sure whether it's worth it; I've converted to Firefox from Chrome, moved to Piwik from Google Analytics, moved
by sondr3 13y ago
I'm at a bit of a crossroad, and I'm not entirely sure whether it's worth it; I've converted to Firefox from Chrome, moved to Piwik from Google Analytics, moved from Google Reader to Fever and so on. But it's just that it doesn't feel like it'll make a difference in the long run because nothing I'm doing will stop them if they actually do go after me.
It might help against tracking and such, but I feel like it's just an illusion that I'm making for myself. No matter what I do to try to prevent it they it won't matter in the long run, it just makes it that much more inconvenient for me.
Ugh, not sure what to do/think.
- schrijver 13y agoOn an individual level you’re probably right, if the government wants to track you, they might find a way—so this is more about doing the right thing because you hope more people do it. Google analytics, for example, is mainly problematic because everyone uses it, which creates a graph where at Google’s end, ip numbers can get a very detailed surfing history, as users hop from GA using server to GA using server. One person using Piwik changes nothing, many people using it will.
- comex 13y agoIt won't stop the government from getting at your data if they have time to spend actively targeting you. But it will stop them from passively slurping up your communications (possibly along with many other users') as part of an everyday protocol, which is surely an important difference. (At least, for the present! I could totally imagine a near future where the government had a standard method to collect the data of various self-hosted services from VPS providers.)