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Kind of a hard question to word, but is there anything in your life you have recommended to other people but no one's ever gotten into?

I love podcasts and have friends who still thank me for getting them into this one or that one. But I've never gotten anyone to listen to My Brother, My Brother and Me. I don't know if the name is unappealing or the concept but people seem to bounce off immediately.

So what can't you get people into and why should we check it out?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Does Privacy count? I always I try to encourage people to treat themselves to better privacy, to step away from big corpo platforms and use more Foss services. Doesn't stick with a lot of em. ๐Ÿ˜”

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you can't see it, it doesn't exist. /s

They'll try and make it sound like it was a reasoned decision to give in, but if there was a little eyeball looking over their shoulder they'd 100% be freaked out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

well obviously, but a disembodied animate eyeball would freak anyone out regardless of what it was doing

[โ€“] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What is the practical, measurable impact on my life of big corpo knowing my info? Seems like a lot of ass ache for without any measurable benefits beyond some principles stand big corpo doesn't care about. It's not like Big Corpo isn't getting your info. Using Chrome and a VPN on the Google spy drone in your pocket isn't hiding anything from Google. If Big Corpo wants your data, they will get it. They are better at getting it than we are at hiding it. The only solution is legislative, not individual nerds putting up knee high fences and feeling morally superior about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What is the practical, measurable impact on my life of big corpo knowing my info?

Just off the top of my head: spam, scam calls, phishing emails, credit agency hacks, every data aggregator in the world having a psychological profile on you, malicious actors who want your money having access to enough information to have a chance at getting access to your bank account. But at least advertisements will more likely be things you want.

Oh and don't forget it's not just big corpo, it's also several nations spying on you. Sure you might not be doing anything wrong now, but take it from a political refugee: if they ever want to control you, all they need to do is criminalize something you did in the past and then they already have all the evidence they need. Isn't "justice" fun?

If Big Corpo wants your data, they will get it.

That's a very silly assumption to make. Just because they have better data aggregation abilities than your average person doesn't mean they're omnipotent.

They are better at getting it than we are at hiding it.

This really sounds luke you're devolving into an All Or Nothing stance. Just because my online presence necessarily leaves a data footprint doesn't mean I should just give up and let them have everything they want.

The only solution is legislative, not individual nerds putting up knee high fences and feeling morally superior about it.

Excuse you, mine's a chest high wall.

Ignoring the assumption that legislation would ever act against the will of capital... As we've seen with the Right to Repair movement: societal change stems from the sustained pressure applied by groups of dedicated individuals. Legislation doesn't just pop into congress because one of the representatives was visited the night before by the three ghosts of privacy past, present and future in the middle of the night; it comes from representatives that either belonged to the movements or were successfully lobbied by them.

Also if someone suggesting you should care about your own privacy and/or well-being feels like an attack against your morals, you should start asking why and who taught you to feel that way about it. I don't feel like a better person than you, I feel a lot less paranoid and stressed all the time and I would wish that for everyone

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

chest high wall

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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