Filing accident reports, my contact information is made public record, and lawyers and shady chiropractors line up to try to fleece me. Yes, I have something to hide, or rather, someone to hide from.
I’m a lot more comfortable with people knowing what my genitals look like than most people are and yet even I draw the line well before insurers or law enforcement get a peek
On social media, I see ragebaiting posts and it occurred to me that they are honeypots in disguise. If I say too much, it could be used against me, as I plan to join a union.
It is exactly what Instagram is, everyone is incriminating themselves with all kind of hateful baits. There will be a day when they will use that data accordingly.
I plan to join a union
talks into earpiece You hear that, boys? It’s oppression time! hoots with glee like Alex’s droogs in A Clockwork Orange
Saw this concept in another thread. Paraphrasing and adding my own stuff.
Two words: dynamic pricing. Every company will start setting prices, using your tailored data, to extract the maximum amount of revenue from you that they can. And i guarantee, it won’t be cheaper than you pay now.
There are even some body-parts of mine, that I am ordered — by the law itself — to hide in public.!!!1
You mean you are not a fan of little Richard and Fanny? That is terrible! Do not speak to me again!
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Yeah no I really don’t have relationship data lol
no data is also data, they love targeting singles
There are several whole ecosystems dedicated to it.
So create a fake one, just for fun for them to read .aybe later it will turn out to the bestseller book🤣
Can I install a camera in your bedroom? One above your couch so I can read the things you type? One in the toilet? No? But you have nothing to hide you said…?
Man, this is such a trap. People see an ad for Tuta and think they have finally won the privacy game. They jump from Gmail to Tuta like it is some kind of digital nirvana but honestly it’s just trading one master for another. It’s an improvement, sure. Moving from a glass house into a bunker definitely shrinks your attack surface but you are still handing the keys over to a single company. They own the bunker so they actually control everything. If you want real sovereignty? You gotta go deeper than that. Go towards self hosting or actual decentralized protocols where YOU hold the keys and nothing else. Otherwise you are just a prisoner in a slightly more secure cell.
Okay, I’m sorry, but while I sorta agree with you
Go towards self hosting
Such a horrible idea for email. Here’s a nice talk outlining how horrible it is to host your own email these days.
or actual decentralized protocols where YOU hold the keys and nothing else.
Great for chat and many other things, but you can’t escape email in today’s world. You’ll still need it.
Not sure what a good solution is though, since Tuta and Proton aren’t exactly great either.
You are totally misjudging this! Honestly you are probably just thinking about the absolute nightmare of manually configuring every single little thing like SMTP and SPF back in the day which was a massive headache. But that is not how it works anymore. I have been self hosting my email for over ten years using mail in a box and it is basically zero maintenance once it is up and running. These modern stacks use abstraction layers to handle all the annoying stuff so you do not have to be a full time sysadmin just to get through the day. It is not some impossible task where you are stuck with Tuta or Proton because you can definitely escape those silos if you use the right stack instead of trying to build every single layer from scratch.
It still requires you to maintain the entire server infrastructure. Sure if you already have your server up and running either way then spinning up another docker container or whatever else you use is pretty fast to do. But building and, more importantly, properly securing a server stack just for mail is a lot of work for little benefit. And if it stops working for whatever reason you won’t even notice it since Emails just get send into the void and are forever lost there.
If you really want to go the extra mile to be more independent from big services, then buying a domain and using that with something like tuta is enough. You can still jump ship whenever you like without the workload of server maintenance.
I think this is a very priveleged take if we actually care about advocating for digital sovereignty.
In a perfect world, sure, build and manage a server with self hosted infrastructure. In reality people care about this stuff rarely actually have the money, time, skills or drive to manage a project like that confidently.
Its normal for people to want to allocate management of their services to a provider with trust to circumvent this.
For actualnconstructive advice to the people who can’t do this: Try looking up to see if their are any nonprofit email hosting services in your country - they exist but usually don’t do marketing and are often built on strong values. If not I really think using services like Tuta, proton, etc is leaps forward for your safety, privacy and ethics compared to Google, Microsoft, etc.
They even know my dick size. Nothing is off limits.
Hmmmmm… I do wonder how they came to be in possession of that information. Not judging, just wondering
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Only solution is to block all ads I guess
Do you have an actual point you want to say, or are you content with mocking people and stirring things up?
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Do you actually want the people with this (anti-data-collection) opinion, to stop posting online? Why?
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I have a couple of questions. First, I don’t fully follow your main argument. What is too much? Where it’s the hypocrisy? Can you explain what is is you’re seeing, that is making you feel enough pain to be posting here in this way?
Second, how were things in your time, as you were growing up? How was the internet like?
That’s a bold statement from the company without any external security audit and which doesn’t allow you to use PGP.
You also have a maximum price you’ll pay for various goods and services…
“So when can we put cameras in your bedroom and bathroom?”
“why do you wear clothes?”
Depends on what time of year it is.
And if you are with someone special…
“why do you lock your phone?”
“Why do you have a lock on your bathroom door?”
Why do you even HAVE a door?
Why do you have walls?
With IR and RF technology the way that it is, you might as well not be wearing anything in the eyes of the tech spooks behind the panopticon…
People carry their phones to both.
My iphone really doesn’t like that I have aluminum tape on the cameras and a water resistant case that I have to essentially shove in my mouth and use speaker by my ear to use it.
Do you have a smart-tv in one of them? Or a rumbla? Maybe there are cameras already.
“I can’t shit unless someone is watching!”
”We’ll install an extra door to your bedroom from the outside and write ’For police use only’ for YOUR PROTECTION”
Also it has a shoddy lock
Tell me your card & bank account details
Also give me your mother’s phone number
I too want op’s mothers number
And home address
Dyson’s toothbrush camera was never for your mouth
Toothbrush cameras?
If you have nothing to hide, then how can I trust you?
Found the president’s lemmy front man’s account! /s But that is how they operate, they don’t trust anyone they don’t have dirt on. Just like the Borgia pope.
