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[–] percent@infosec.pub 85 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I genuinely appreciate the cause, but to sign this, I have to provide PII, agree to their terms of service and privacy policy, and get automatically opted-in to their mailing list that I'll have to unsubscribe from later.

So to petition against this shitty tech stuff, I have to go through this other shitty tech stuff. It sucks how normalized this all has become.

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

here it makes at least some sense to verify that each person voted once. the mail list stuff is of course to much and should be optional from the beginning.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone know if this affects GrapheneOS users? I can install GrapheneOS like 50x faster than it would take to understand what I'm legally binding myself to by signing the petition.

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago

custom OS shouldn't be effected by it. I'll probably change soon as well.

anyway, that is rather independent on the petition. a petition is usually not for your own short term benefit, rather for the common good, or outreach of the general problem. so doing either is for different reasons, both reasonable