Youd have to be an idiot to think even authentic ones are safe,

I have some bad news for you. You are the minority. Most people on the fediverse are in the minority.

We are the type of people who have linux on our pcs. Linux on pcs only have a 5% market share, and thats an all time high.

People on lemmy naturally avoid sites like tiktok. Not because of politics, but because tiktok as a format is just annoying.

The idiots are everywhere. So if google falsely identifies the 5% as bots, and you just stop visiting the webpage, they don't care. Your protests will not stop this. You aren't wrong that you'd have to be an idiot to go along with this, but the world is filled with idiots.

When I walk in public, I know 9 out of 10 times I'm the smartest person in the area. Not because I'm actually really smart, but because the world around me is filled with morons who refuse to engage in critical thinking. If everyone around me just stopped to think for themselves, and got in the habit of regularly doing so, I would no longer be the smartest man in most rooms.

Until that happens, you have to view everything that happens with a different outlook. Don't ask "Is this a good idea that smart people would do?" Instead ask "Is this something the mouth breathers will not question?"

And once you look at it from that angle, you'll begin to realize one horrifying thought. Nothing in this world is being done for your benefit. It's all being done to your detriment.

Oh look, here's an age verification system. Just show your id and let this totally secure system store all your personal data! Nothing wrong with that, right? It's being done to protect the kids! I don't think I need to explain to anyone on Lemmy how much of a load of bullshit that is, but again. You are the minority. Most people in my family are convinced it's a great idea. They think I'm a conspiracy theorist for suggesting things like inevitable data breaches, or that the whole system is just one massive honey pot of personal data. My family thinks I'm an idiot for knowing that, and trying to warn them.

But, again.....minority.

And I already know what will happen. Once their own personal data has been breached, they'll claim no one could have seen it coming, and deny that I ever said anything. My entire families catch phrase at this point is "Oh, I don't remember that at all."

And then they wonder why I don't talk to them much. Hell, my brother in law SUPPORTS ai. He denies that its stealing jobs. Denies that its destroying the planet, and eating massive amounts of resources.

He says "I think we would have heard about something like that" while ignoring all the times I've shown him articles about the times we heard about that. He denies that copilot in windows 11 screen captures you.

I'm just getting myself worked up again. My point is, you aren't wrong that only an idiot would fall for this, but you aren't considering that this world is like 85% idiots.