A lot of people have just accepted surviellance for convienience.
People close to me get TSA precheck even though it requires fingerprinting, because “the government already has your fingerprints”
But if they did, why would they need to ask your for them?
Get off Reddit. Karma grind is not worth it.
“If people say edge is bad they should consider thinking about your windows 11 os lol”
The op in that post is 14 years old at most. Just look at how that shot is tailored.
“hello i am u/NotBillGates and I agree with this message”
but it was trash at loading html websites
as opposed to websites written in excel 2003 format or what
Bro’s from the timeline where Flash became the dominant species.
html websites
These aren’t normies. They’re children.
This honestly reads like a bad commercial you’d hear on the radio.
Is it me or do those comments feel very shill-like?
Yes some subreddit is piviting hard captalism recently, giving up their dignity to defend corporations with their life.
A similar argument I hear is “If they want me, they will find and arrest me no matter my precautions”.
Kinda yes… But why are you talking about threat models that include someone deliberately hunting you down? We are not high-ranking dissidents or criminals that they would put effort and money into finding. Our concern is passive surveillance - maybe the collected info doing us a disservice (like being leaked for scammers or sold to an evil ex), maybe even something mundane getting flagged and us being arrested just to serve as an example.
e.g. Period tracking apps being used as evidence when prosecuting people who seek abortions
When they realized they DO actually have something to hide, they moved the goalposts to now say nothing is private online anyway.
I mean, that is pretty close to the truth. Especially for people whose skill level is at “Firefox sucks at loading HTML sites”.
That’s such a weird statement. People who don’t like Firefox at that level don’t know what html is.
Elon Musk popularised this cope argument a few years ago. It sounds intelligent to people who are incapable of any level of critical thinking or nuance and believe everything in the world is either 100% A or 100% B with no in-between. Sadly, this is a large percentage of the population.
100% of the people are like that!
What did he say to popularize this?
Gen Alpha doesn’t care about privacy online. They need to be guided by their parents to care, e.g. when they buy a laptop, they install some Linux distribution on it before they give it to the child.
They’ve been primed not to. They’ve grown up surrounded by social media where oversharing with your legal name attached is incentived, both by the companies and the lonely, drama-hungry users. I wish we’d pushed harder against this back in the early days of Facebook, but I doubt most of us saw this coming.
we’re doomed then
Copium
Copium indeed
Microsoft Edge, based on Google’s Copium engine-
trash at loading html
The mindset about privacy is just all wrong. It’s not an all or nothing game. Any privacy gain is a net positive to no privacy at all.
To many people conflate privacy with anonymity or try “accomplish” privacy without understanding what they want to be private from and why.
Exactly. Now to click the “copy text” button and keep your fine words handy for my next convo with a friend who thinks life with Facebook and Google is grand.
