Comment by userbinator
13 days ago
What people say in polling is different from what they will actually do.
IMHO "would be uncomfortable" is not a strong opinion. "Oppose and actively seek to prevent" is a strong opinion. In my experience the majority just have a sense of learned helplessness.
I agree in general, but the person I was responding to was implying the equal but opposite in that claiming he "often" faced the argument of "why are you railing against this, you have no privacy anymore anyway."
People are usually quite interested to learn about ways to can work against the dystopia to some degree. For a specific example I've converted numerous of people to Brave users just by demoing the ad-block and privacy features. People who have never used ad-block are often in borderline disbelief. Not once has a person ever been like 'oh why bother.' That is just literally unbelievable.
I actually did have a relative refuse adblocking via DNS after I demonstrated it on their iPhone; it kept them from watching ads for free stuff in a game, and it's not easy to toggle on the iPhone.
That's one out of dozens though. Most people are thrilled by the improved experience.