skelegorg
curator of succulent plants
personally i am disgusted by the sheer amount of corporate spying people are actively inviting into their lives every day. this is all without mentioning what the government is putting on you but people voluntarily bring in alexas and google homes and the like to their homes to listen to everything they say and do. mobile voice assistants as well- why the hell does anyone want their phone live-streaming their mic to a company 24/7. then the omnipotence of google tracking scripts and such- hell, there are even google scripts on this page.
i'd be interested to know the extent people go to try and salvage what digital privacy they can. i use duckduckgo (although i'm not happy with them after they started censoring search results) on firefox with a handful of extensions to help and my only google association at the moment is my spam gmail account i made years ago. analytic data from any service can shove it and if you block protonmail addresses then i'm out. perhaps worst of all is when a service blocks you for using a vpn or anonymizing protocol, its just taking advantage of people who don't understand what a vpn actually is and think all they do is give you japanese netflix.
generally i try to avoid closed-source software although sometimes i have no choice but to use it for school.
i know that what i do might not get me very far but at least i'm trying. richard stallman completely rejects javascript and apparently accesses webpages through html he emails himself using a remote computer (source: his personal website). while i'm not willing to go as far as him, id rather go down with petty fighting than by just taking it.
i'd be interested to know the extent people go to try and salvage what digital privacy they can. i use duckduckgo (although i'm not happy with them after they started censoring search results) on firefox with a handful of extensions to help and my only google association at the moment is my spam gmail account i made years ago. analytic data from any service can shove it and if you block protonmail addresses then i'm out. perhaps worst of all is when a service blocks you for using a vpn or anonymizing protocol, its just taking advantage of people who don't understand what a vpn actually is and think all they do is give you japanese netflix.
generally i try to avoid closed-source software although sometimes i have no choice but to use it for school.
i know that what i do might not get me very far but at least i'm trying. richard stallman completely rejects javascript and apparently accesses webpages through html he emails himself using a remote computer (source: his personal website). while i'm not willing to go as far as him, id rather go down with petty fighting than by just taking it.
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