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That’s why you never say data. They’ve heard it all before. Call them a cuck. They’re fucking your phone and you’re left to watch, anti-libre software.

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Bootlickers gonna lick

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For many people it’s easier to not care… they don’t want to bother with long term consequences of their behaviors.

I simply ask them if they would be OK with a company taking money out their bank account.

Your data is valuable. Why give it away for free?

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Focus on action. Delete X, Get Y, Change Z. They will ask why. Stop talking about privacy. Make them ask you.

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I simply ask them if they would be OK with a company taking money out their bank account.

This is as unconvincing an analogy as , and for the same reason.

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Unconvincing to whom? That campaign did an amazing job of equating copyright to property ownership for an entire generation.

It’s not accurate, but I think we’ve seen that it can be very convincing for most people.

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Which generation is that? I’ll be honest, I’ve yet to talk to someone who really gives a crap about where the content they’re consuming is coming from. Hell, most people I’ve dealt with don’t give a crap about content being pirated whenever it happens to be the more convenient option.

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I wouldn’t recommend trying to trick people into caring about their privacy: it’s not good for your reputation or your long-term relationship with them.

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“Hey I’m going to buy your location data tonight.”

“I like to know where you go on Thursdays”

This what Google, Facebook, X, your ISP, and the junk apps on your phone actually get from you, and everyone around you when you use their creepy apps.

Hit me up on Mastadon, use Tor, use DDG, we should have an restraining order against these creeps. Worse yet they don’t just want it for themselves they sell and share it with company, countries, anyone they like, and don’t tell you.

This is how I WANT to talk about because it’s how I feel. Their just strangers, I wouldn’t tell a stranger on the street any of this. I feel like this is such a fringe thought for people though.

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I though peoples menstrual data getting sold to the anti abortion states and people gettibg arrested would wake them up to it. It hasnt so i guess they reap what they sow.

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It’s like this. Your front door is left open and while, magically, no one can touch or take anything in your house, strangers are allowed to enter at will and eyeball everything, see all your bills, your kids stuff, your laundry, dirty and clean, etc. How would that ever be ok? And yet we say this is ok electronically every day.

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You front door is forbidden to be ever closed (if you want to have an access to the street)

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“You can always choose not use the street, no one forced you to sign up for an outside account”

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Reminds me of a French king who wanted to be equal: I forbid rich and poor to sleep under the bridges.

It sounds fair but strangely it isn’t. Nowadays, you can’t avoid the Street. Nowadays in westen, the first thing an beggar needs to have a hope to have a house is a phone to access some free hot spots.

Having a new account is not enough. With browser fingerprinting and IP address you can recognise most of the people.

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