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Does your family is also against your privacy means? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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As weird as the title sounds, my family really dislikes me using Tuta and not Gmail. Is your family also like this?

"Come on, Sarah, can't you just be normal and use Gmail like everyone?"

my mom, scolding me.

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[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Parry and hit back. Ask her why it matters what you use if you can function with them as if you use google. Then return fire with your favorite reason not to use google. For me, I like to open the dev tools in Firefox, and show the head of any website. Let them choose. Find the line with google analytics, google tag service, or google ad sense. "Wow this website has nothing to do with google. Why is this here? To track you. Did you know that google can track your mouse? Even if you don't click on anything? Or they can track you by installing fonts?" Etc. Etc. Scare the shit out of them and they'll leave you alone. Hopefully you can slowly begin to convert them.