"Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it"
Great post!
https://daringfireball.net/2020/09/online_privacy_real_world_privacy
@Sandra @kensanata sharing things publicly is a true choice to give up privacy; that's different than the intrusive tracking across the web and into the real world that large tech/media/ad companies do
My fedi host isn't tracking me outside what it needs to do to function, and it's clear about what that is
Is it perfect? No. Is it massively better than Facebook/Twitter/Google/etc? Yes. Utopian fallacies are hostile to progress
@Sandra @kensanata I understood. I'm saying that indexing posts you make in public is an extremely different scale of privacy risk than the kind of tracking that ad/tech/social companies do.
On fedi, the tracking is limited to what you share on fedi unless your host is malicious/compromised. You know exactly what it's possible to track, and you can exercise control of it fairly easily: your posts and your profile and your fedi network. Mainstream networks track a huge percentage of your activity even away from those networks, even if you don't have an account, and it's not always possible to know what they know about you
It's "nosy neighbors" vs "secret police" levels of privacy risk.
Marko Saric
Sandra
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