Have you guys also noticed this? I’m not talking about “Oh my family isn’t privacy conscious” I honestly get that for ur average moms and pops, they don’t know any better.
the problem is with how these big tech companies effectively poisoned the everyday Joe to think that handing over ur data like a good boy is the norm and breaking out is “weird” and “too much”, this blame also goes on Hollywood.
Yesterday my friend called me " Mr robot" for just taking my privacy seriously I thought it was funny.
some people also fired their single neuron and told me “People only do this when they have something to hide”
These remarks that I face from time to time really highlights the mentality of the general society where if you break out of the norm, even if it doesn’t harm them, they would find a way to make off handed remarks about it almost like they’re dissatisfied that you’re fighting.
Same issue with DNA tests. I tried to choose not to hand over my DNA so freely but my sister already did it. I didn’t get a choice in the matter.
This joke is 2 in 1. Protonmail? lol
I had to have a hard conversation with my wife and in-laws about posting pictures of my son online. They agreed but didn’t get it. Once AI deepfakes became common, they got it.
Ayep. Probably including where you live and what you do for a living.
“i have nothing to hide anyways”
“theyre tracking me anyways so it doesnt matter”
“i dont do anything illegal so i dont care if im being tracked”
these quotes make my blood boil
I’ve also heard
“I’m not important enough for anyone to care what I’m doing.”
I’m like honey this shit is automated at population scale. You don’t have to be important. You only have to be a human.
Nice resource that goes over the main objections to people who don’t value there own privacy:
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/common-objections-debunked/
Thank you
If you think you have nothing to hide, imagine pooping with the bathroom door open all of the time.
I always gotta love the “why do you refuse the cookies? The site might not work!”.
Sweety I need you to understand that I do not care whether or not the site works. If it doesn’t then it’s not worth my time.
I just go full anti tech, which people find ironic since I’m in the tech industry, and they poke fun at that
No matter what you do, no matter what you think or say, people will try their darnedest to poke holes at it
But what you *don’t * do? That’s pretty hard to poke holes at.
“I don’t have a Facebook account” is a brickwall to the conversion. That way in their mind, it’s not that I don’t trust the company, it’s that I don’t even slightly value the product. I have a damn phone, I have to am required to_ pay for the damn phone. It has group chats. What is the value of Facebook again?
Marketplace? I buy everything brand new and keep it until it’s dead
Doomscrolling? Bad habit, not interested
Family connections? I cut most of them off but maybe 4, who know to call/text
Now even thermostats are getting microphones and listening devices, which will absolutely be used to collect data on people from their homes see ecobees new TOS, and the new HoneyWell/ring camera integrations frankly I’m just done with the bullshit. I’m full blown get any phone home technology the fuck out of my house levels of done
But I don’t say that when people ask why I changed my thermostat from the $400 Ecobee, which was a standout feature in my home when they walked in.
No. I say “their servers kept going down and causing issues when I needed it to work”, because people who somehow manage to live without concerning themselves of targeted pricing or snooping practices do care about slight inconveniences, and for whatever reason “they changed their TOS to get people to agree to let them spy on them without legal reprecussions, and if you don’t agree they’ll lock you out of your account barring you from using half the stuff you paid to use” is less logical to their pre-occupied brains than “I got inconvenienced twice a year from down servers”
It’s scary to think about how the next generations are essentially being groomed to believe that these invasive applications and surveillance are just normal. But that’s the goal of the big tech oligarchs.
Same reason they try and say it’s only criminals that want to protect their privacy.
arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
- Edward Snowden
Its wild, I remember when my first paycheck came in and a family member posted a picture of it to their social media… with my name and all on there.
I knew a guy once who would upload party photos to Facebook and other sites, tagging the people in it. Did that with passed out and way too drunk people too. That was my call to never party with him… and to maybe drink less over all.
No the one that pisses me off are the people who understand that computers take effort and the only way to fix that is to have an organization that takes care of that effort for you.
For example to replace discord your only options are: Corporate shit Startups which are a few extra users away from IPO’ing into corporate shit Something open source selfhosted
I get why normal folk don’t wann self host. What I can’t stand is the complaints about using other peoples self hosted servers because you can’t be fucked to remember more than two URLs/passwords as if your browser doesn’t have bookmakers and you don’t have a password manager.
Like fuck sure, its cool you don’t want to do system administration. But the only way an extra site is inconvenient is if you’re incapable of the computer equivalent of wiping your own ass.
These are young anticapitalist, chronically online queers I’m talking about too.
If they’re not willing nobody is and its fucking soul crushing to know.
These are young anticapitalist, chronically online queers I’m talking about too.
Right! They already are familiar with being on the fringes of “normal” society, and have a lot more to gain than a “normie” from protecting their privacy, and yet they just can’t be bothered because “Matrix is too clunky” or “I just really like playing Overwatch”. My eyes can’t roll hard enough.
Why? They have their creature comforts and platform challenges. Dismissal is elitism, and closes off the movement.
Is it elitist to think bad UX is a smaller problem than core political ideology, especially for a group of people who’re far more computationally literate/flexible than at leas 75% of the population.
Some of these people are tech workers for fuck sake. It would be elitism if these where people without much experience around computers.
Its not elitism if people are just choosing not to put effort into shit they claim matters deeply to them.
