• @[email protected]
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    578 months ago

    The claim to have “nothing to hide” was not just born our of ignorance, but also out of comfort - to not having to do anything about it.

    Now that even the last one accepted that they do indeed have something to hide, but in order to justify their own inaction, it’s labeled as inevitable: privacy is not real.

    They are lying to themselves, because doing otherwise would mean they have to admit being wrong.

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      It’s true that they say both things out of comfort.

      Though to be completely honest, both statements are not contradictory. They are not necessarily accepting that they do have something worth hiding, but just stating that hiding is too difficult these days anyway. That does not mean (sadly) that they would start doing it were it easier, just that they have even less of a motive to care about it now that hiding is so much harder (to the point of almost being “a myth”).

      I’m not saying they are right, I’m saying that lack of consistency is not the problem with that attitude. It’s not a “shift”, just a consistent continuation of a lazy attitude towards comfort.

    • 🦇 Batman 🦇
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      48 months ago

      i think its a propganda to destroy privacy like the one “police are public protector” only the high ups and they know what police means but the general public dont .

    • @[email protected]
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      118 months ago

      The ‘nothing to hide’ argument seems a lot like that ‘first they came for socialists and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist…’ quote. Sure you have nothing to hide right now, but what happens when something you weren’t hiding becomes a target.

  • @[email protected]
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    318 months ago

    Wouldn’t it be better to at least put a modicum of effort in to have some privacy, than to put zero effort in and have none at all?

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      If everyone started using encrypted messaging software, using devices that are resilient to all but the highest levels of forensics, and stuck to social spaces which prevent bots and alt accounts, hosted on servers in countries their own nation’s law enforcement doesn’t have access to, it would massively increase the costs of surveillance. Every layer of that increases the price.

      When you let surveilling you become profitable and easy, expect it to get worse. More obtrusive. After all, you’ve displayed compliance up to that point.

      • @[email protected]
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        178 months ago

        Yes, that’s it. As I’ve told friends on several occasions, you know why I encrypt my online life and guard my privacy as if, you know, freedom depended on privacy? Because fuck them, that’s why.

        It takes my time and effort, but I just can’t let the bastards win just that little bit more easily. All cops and corps are bastards (ACAB).

  • @[email protected]
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    148 months ago

    Why? It’s because they never arrived at their current behavior by a systematic progression of logical steps. Most of the behaviors we exhibit aren’t that way. We just offer a post-hoc explanation/justification. They use edge, so they defend their action with any argument assertion they can think of.

    It’s also (sort of) because they want to tip the proverbial scale towards their current use. Change takes effort and can be irritating. They have their list of positives about edge (faster, easier, etc.), and they downplay the negatives such as privacy.

  • @[email protected]
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    The one saying they use copilot for math problems is the worst part. It demonstrates their complete lack of critical thinking.

  • youmaynotknow
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    108 months ago

    The op in that post is 14 years old at most. Just look at how that shot is tailored.

  • @[email protected]
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    338 months ago

    “If people say edge is bad they should consider thinking about your windows 11 os lol”

  • @[email protected]
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    488 months ago

    A lot of people have just accepted surviellance for convienience.

    People close to me get TSA precheck even though it requires fingerprinting, because “the government already has your fingerprints”

    But if they did, why would they need to ask your for them?

    • Mac
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      28 months ago

      If you’ve gone to jail they totally have your prints already. Fingerprints are identifying information for such a thing. How else would they do that?

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        Not everyone has gone to jail, but if the govt has your fingerprints it’s easier to get convicted regardless of your innocence.

    • @[email protected]
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      Depending on what people do, the government already has their fingerprints.

      Personally, I work around schools so I had to get a background check and fingerprinted for that. I also am licensed to handle explosives, both federally and at the state level. I been fingerprinted for that. I’ve gone through TSA for hazmat endorsement on a commercial driver’s license. That needed fingerprints and a background check.

      Getting fingerprinted to get through airport security is the least of my privacy concerns.

      But my threat model isn’t the TSA. They aren’t a concern of mine, although I do opt out of their facial recognition.

      I am concerned with internet surveillance, corporate surveillance, and communication surveillance.

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        When I got fingerprinted for my classified security clearance I told them that due to my psoriasis my fingerprints were blank due to the thickened skin. They said it didn’t matter so I have a set of blank prints in the fed files.

    • @[email protected]
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      108 months ago

      Sorry for devil’s advocate here because I agree with you but hypothetically the answer would be verification. ie., Google already has your password, so why would they need to ask you for it when you log in?

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        Clear Blue is like this, but they use your iris scan. You have to scan every time to skip the line. But the TSA precheck just fingerprints you once when you sign up IIRC

  • Matt
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    Gen Alpha doesn’t care about privacy online. They need to be guided by their parents to care, e.g. when they buy a laptop, they install some Linux distribution on it before they give it to the child.

    • @[email protected]
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      They’ve been primed not to. They’ve grown up surrounded by social media where oversharing with your legal name attached is incentived, both by the companies and the lonely, drama-hungry users. I wish we’d pushed harder against this back in the early days of Facebook, but I doubt most of us saw this coming.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      they most likely want to game on their laptop as well. Linux is capable, but usually requires good configuration and troubleshooting, that a gen alpha kid can’t do, and parents are busy. This is why it is not a widely practiced thing

  • @[email protected]
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    38 months ago

    Off-topic, but I do agree in general that Edge is a solid browser. I use it when I’m at work and really love the vertical tabs and tab groups. I use firefox for personal use and am patiently waiting for the vertical tabs on the stable release (and not just in about:config).

  • Matt
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    108 months ago

    Get off Reddit. Karma grind is not worth it.