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TL;DR think about your opsec before going full paranoid.

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Opsec is my second favourite word

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Thats the idea. make everything difficult unless you do it the way they want. Have to call my insurance today to find my account number for sending a payment through billpay as they are basically hiding it because it necessary to pay outside of putting something on their system. don’t want you paying from your system (bank) must put in your card in theirs.

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at this point, individual effort wont cut it beyond making people feel better. a big collective push for laws, open software, reform or whathaveyou is what it would take to move the needle.

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Tries soloing everything, then cries they’re tired…

Tech bros can’t think beyond themselves. When will they say work together, make a group, make your own little groups.

Start with stuff that affects others, like escaping Discord (or only keeping it to help more escape).

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One of my dreams is the internet becoming peer2peer, cutting out the big players.

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The internet is peer-to-peer.

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The internet is supposed to be peer-to-peer

FTFY. Megalomaniacal corporations, especially advertisers and the copyright cartel, are Hell-bent on “fixing” that so they can better control and exploit everyone, though.

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I don’t know about you, but I’m not a datacenter or server farm. (Yet?)

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I’ve seen this dude’s videos before, it’s always the same. Whine about how hard privacy is in a monotone voice.

He’s not wrong, but goddamn is it monotonous content.

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I tried to go hard on privacy, but the more you know the more you realize how difficult it is.

So, the best thing to do if figure out who you don’t want to see your info. If it’s the government then you are basically out of luck in my opinion.

I stopped stressing about it when I decided to not let my need for privacy to interfere with my work.

In my personal life, things are more private luckily.

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