Sarah Jamie LewisMay 21

Whether we are discussing recall / client side scanning / "privacy preserving" advertisement/analytics/metrics or any of the other plentiful attacks on end-user control:

There is no sound threat model that applies past the point where the operating system / web browser / messaging app / "user agent" is generally considered to be actively hostile to the the person it ostensibly takes direction from.

JulianCalabyMay 24
Show threadSarah Jamie Lewis

Your one practical option is to actively reject tools that now exist to serve interests other than your own - and to help others do the same; and in doing so support the people who make the tools that put you back in control.

Are there solutions for everything? No - but if we don't start investing in them, and building them, and making them better today then we simply won't have them at all.

Because no tool, no organization, that sells out its users is ever going to stop.

May 21 at 5:46pmWeb
Show threadmedium rare birdMay 21
@sarahjamielewis this is why I'm convinced the web is anti-user. browsers exist to deliver increasing amounts of functionality to page authors (and their advertising partners), not to empower the readers. it's not enough to use better web sites, we need a platform where adding user-hostile functionality is not utterly trivial. from user-select: none; to spotify DRM, to the inability to avoid fingerprinting, the web is a lost cause