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I love when people try to text wall and rhetoric to „winning“ a convo to ultimately feel good.
Neither have I the time nor the patience to point at all the biases and fallacies included in this.
Surprise fact: People can do whatever they like. If they install an ad blocker and deny tracking as much as possible, that is great and every little bit against megacorps is great.
This comment is defeatist to no end.
Instead of telling people to give up and be how you imagine people should be, be the change that you want and show them how to protect themselves and how to do things „the right way“.
If this person's beliefs are sincerely held, showing people on the internet the "the right way" to go about being serious about privacy is an impossible task. One can't be on the World Wide Web and "be the change they wish see" (i.e. not be on the web) with regards to their privacy perspective.
And I'm not sure if it's defeatist to state that all of us, just by being online, likely have some hooks in our mouths. It's just the cost we pay for not being luddites. Yes, there's benefits to not having a ton of hooks in us, which is why we do what we do, but even one hook is enough to steal your private info and sell it to everyone. We're posting to the World Wide Web after all, not Gopher/Gemini/Onion. Hell, this goes beyond the internet since the DMV freely sells your personal information too. We make these limited sacrifices so we have an actual community instead of feeling like we're self-righteous in our loneliness.