The Slow Death of the Power User

That person is dying off. And nobody in the industry seems to care. In fact, most of them are actively celebrating the funeral while billing it as progress.

This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

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The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn

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This part of the blog I’m sending out to everyone I have ever met.

“I have nothing to hide” is the response, which is not an argument — it’s a thought-terminating cliché that makes it socially awkward to point out that privacy is not about criminality, it’s about power. Whoever holds your behavioral data holds power over you. That’s true whether or not you’ve done anything wrong.