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I think the average person just simply doesn't care about their privacy. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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In some of the music communities I'm in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They're all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match... Mark was right to call the people he's leaching off of fucking idiots.

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[–] -4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I think most people realize they're too boring for anyone with access to individual info to care who they are. Do you really care to know what porn I look at or what I'm buying online at 3am on a week night?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Nobody cares what porn you are into. Probably.

    However, women using period trackers were free to do so in the US up into recently. Now that data can be subpoenaed and used to help prosecute if it is believed she may have had an abortion.

    You never know when information posted online, or collected otherwise, could be used against you. It's best to seek privacy respecting options whenever possible.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    True, in that it's a balance of risk versus reward. But there's a middle ground between putting your SSN on a billboard and faking your death to go off the grid and burn off your fingerprints. I'm willing to bet 99.9% of people aren't worried about it because they'll never have to be.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What if I told you that you can increase your privacy a lot without having to fake your own death? You don't even have to burn off your fingerprints! All you have to do is use alternatives to certain popular apps. Isn't that great?

    Just use Signal or Matrix instead of WhatsApp. Use Firefox instead of Chrome. At some point you could even replace Windows with GNU/Linux (an operating system that doesn't spy on you! crazy right?). Some of those are tiny sacrifices, some are bigger, but none of them are impossible.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I get it. But I am experiencing absolutely zero drawbacks to any privacy concerns, so any potential sacrifice is almost completely unnecessary. I'll support some similar things because I consider them good causes, but I have no problem being an open book. To bring everything back full circle, I assume most of the population feels similarly, and that explains why most people don't care (which was what I was originally replying to).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    So you see no problem in living in a world where everything is recorded. That's crazy.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    For a lot of people we don’t know anything different. So to a lot it’s making a ton of extremely inconvenient sacrifices to try to claw back something we’ve never had in the first place.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Absolutely. Most folks will never have to worry about it. I would bet those using period tracker apps didn't think it was a big deal either.

    As a middle aged white CIS male, I am sure I have nothing to worry about. However, people in marginalized communities can't be so confident.

    Protecting basic privacy isn't that hard and should be of interest to everyone. Governments and big corps shouldn't know everything about us.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    People who want to deliver you ads so that you may buy their product, thus helping their business, care

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but that's my point. How is that gonna negatively effect me in any way?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    They can try to influence your political opinions (manipulate you) by showing you certain type of content based on your current beliefs. They will show you content that is more likely to make you addicted to the platform. For some people that's gonna be dangerous conspiracy theories or scams like alternative medicine.

    Maybe you are immune to all of that, but many people clearly aren't.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Kind of providing insight as to why most people don't have any privacy concerns. I doubt most people consider that or think they're so easily swayed. Heck, most people are practically apolitical.

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