nixCraft 🐧10h ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/116305873092655616

if people stopped giving all these corporations their age or id/kyc info and just canceled their subscriptions or accounts for 4 months we'd see how fast they stop asking once those next quarter results show up.

governments would wake up pretty fast with less VAT, GST, and Tax revenue, too. you give them an inch and they will take a mile. cut that inch and cut their source of revenue, and they will all fall in line.

that is the only solution to all these stupid laws.

Show threadBrayd 🚩10h ago
@nixCraft true, but most people will never collectively do that.
Show threadDarwin Woodka8h ago

@brayd @nixCraft

80% of people are just basically sheep who will do whatever they're told. It's up to the 20% of us who are stubborn assholes to fix things for everyone else.

Show threadPerkele7h ago

@darwinwoodka @brayd @nixCraft

80%? Thats quite generous.

I'd say its more like 95% :D

Show threadDarwin Woodka7h ago

@ItsePerkele @brayd @nixCraft

You would think, but no. There's a lot more weirdos out there that you think! Most of us are just masking.

Show threadPerkele7h ago

@darwinwoodka @brayd @nixCraft

Sure, theres a lot of us. But how many? 2 million? 5 million? 10 million? That's nothing compared to the billions who don't give a shit :D

Maybe its just my pessimism blinding me, I dunno.

Out of curiosity I had a look at firefox add-on numbers. 10 million have installed ublock, less than 2 have installed privacy badger... I know those numbers don't really mean much but I see those as the minimum of what one should have. Those numbers should have a zero or two more

Show threadDarwin Woodka7h ago

@ItsePerkele @brayd @nixCraft

Yeah, most people don't know how to protect their privacy. I think more people would if they understood how.

Show threadPerkele7h ago

@darwinwoodka @brayd @nixCraft Aye, I think the problem is that they don't even realize they could. Not that they don't know how.

The amount of times I've been asked "you can block ads on youtube?!" is quite alarming.

Show threadDarwin Woodka

@ItsePerkele @brayd @nixCraft

Yeah. I use duckduckgo and al the Youtube stuff gets filtered through Duckplayer which strips out all the ads.

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Show threadPerkele7h ago

@darwinwoodka @brayd @nixCraft ooh didn't know about that. Thanks for informing me.

I recently downloaded the Freetube app, because I changed from Ubuntu to Debian, youtube didn't let me sign in to my account without a phone number. So I decided that I don't need to sign in then. Luckily, Freetube lets me make subscription lists without having a account. As a bonus it doesn't send info to google.

So thanks google for being such a nosy bitch and obsessed with my phone number!<3