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I'm just so numb to this shit by now. Privacy is dead. It seems like EVERY company, even companies that aren't ad agencies like Home Depot are collecting, scraping, and selling data. Literally everyone does it now. Capitalism is dead. Nobody wants to make money by creating an actual good product, it has to be taking advantage of you in some form.
This modern world fucking sucks and nobody will do anything about it. Even me as I type this paragraph out I recognize the irony in me saying this because I should be out there actively doing something about it if I'm so passionate about it right? I try where I can though. I use all FOSS from my phone to my laptop and I boycott companies I don't agree with. I try to make friends and family aware. I can't do much else without upending my entire life though.
Plus nobody cares. Everyone is too fat and happy with iphones and tiktok that they will passively accept these increasingly worse conditions and laws while those of us with morals are left behind
In the end Huxley and Orwell were both right, and I don’t know it could’ve happened without it happening on both fronts