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10Dev

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Demolishun

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4y

I do not think you can protect your privacy, at all. They have been tracking phones position and listening to them for 15 to 20 years.
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RememberMe

14725

4y

@linuxxx
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C0D4

68145

4y

Want to protect yourself?

start:
Stop using the Internet. Simples 🤷‍♂️
Stop having "smart" technology.
end

What? You don't want to forgoe these things? Well, Jump onboard the lack of Privacy train.

Seriously, you can't maintain your privacy at all times, your behaviour both online and offline can and is monitored, that shirt you just bought from a walk in store, now has a receipt, that receipt is now tied to your bank account - you bank now knows where you were and when, without a tracker, what you paid cash? There was a camera on that ATM and in the store.

Tech has surpassed being able to hide from it, your own phone uses 3/4G - that alone gives your location away.

Now that we made it this far:
goto: start
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C0D4

68145

4y

@vigidis 🤣
I laugh, but my bank has started a similar thing, for e-receipts.

The world we live in, for better... or well worse.

@theKarlisK ah, the Facebook like button - I mean, the data profiling gather mining tool that was thrown on everything, everywhere until they were found to be tracking you even when not logged in.

@10Dev, if you care about privacy, go build a time machine - do 88mph and jump back to the year 2000 and make Y2K real!
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TeachMeCode

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4y

I think the best way to protect your privacy is to disconnect the internet
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iiii

9226

4y

Just don't give a fuck about those people?
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fuckyouall

2990

4y

> If everyone else has given up their privacy for convenience, why am I still fighting a losing battle?

For the same reason why theres a large population of people that think the coronavirus is a hoax. They don't see the direct consequences of not caring about it.

At some point, I hope, they will. I am the same as you, by the way - down to the email address thing. I use ungoogled chromium and ddg and tor sometimes even (namely to access email and whatnot).

At this point, privacy isn't a movement. It's self-defense. Once you begin to view it that way, you feel a bit les stress - at least, I do.
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Communist

103

4y

I tried going down that road (Linux, tutanota, no social media) until I couldn't book a cab cause the app required Google services. I've seen given up and "embraced the botnet". We sacrifice our data for the sake of convenience. And I don't see a world where enough people protest to make a tangible cause for change.
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Midnight-shcode

4644

4y

you are fighting windmills, my dear. scary, ugly, but still windmills...
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lotd

7922

4y

@vigidis yup, not to mention that many shops give you discounts by using their app at checkout.

Some downright requires you to use their app to use the quick / cashierless checkout... *Cough* co-op/quickly.
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amoux

270

4y

This is how I view this matter; One day, we will die and be forgotten (except if you become the next einstein). So, in the end - no one will give a fuck or care enough to care about someone who doesn't exist. Of course, if some human is targetting me specifically and I am alive - then there is a fucking problem. Lastly, this is my own view of this, but if privacy is your thing, why stress about it and care that others don't (like me). Do what makes you feel you.
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cervantes01

681

4y

The best way to be invisible is to blend in with the crowd. All of the stuff the OP is doing is making him stand out from the crowd and inviting government scrutiny.

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