Comment by tornikeo
17 hours ago
Privacy people are insane to me.
Some of these guys sound like they erase their fingerprints off the plates when they visit a restaurant, and ask people to forget about them when done talking.
Like it or not, as web gets more complex, it will recognize you more. If you don't want that, just don't use the web - perhaps buy a farm and life off-grid.
I just don't get what's the appeal to this endless damn cat and mouse game.
It’s a lot of work to collect fingerprints off plates. You can build surveillance that way but it scales terribly.
On the web you can do that much more efficiently. That scares people.
As in any defense/offense situation, it’s all about balance.
Goycattle like yourself ought to be executed for the sheer stupidity of your opinions. Privacy is the only reasonable response to the unhinged behavior of web advertisers, who will spend trillions of dollars and decades of research, who will bribe politicians, who will do everything in their power to figure out the shape of your butthole so they can perfectly optimize which sex toy ads to show you. It is utterly psychotic behavior and pretending it is anything else is the either dumbest or most malicious thing anyone has ever done in the last century. If restaurants were to frantically scan their dirty plates for fingerprints after customers are done eating, the customers would be damn right to try to wipe their fingerprints off. Obviously that isn't necessary, because restaurant owners aren't completely out of their minds. So why does the web have to be this way?
"By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising... kill yourself..."
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So you're basically saying the old "I have nothing to hide" argument which has been debunked over a million times...
In particular because "I have nothing to hide" means "I have nothing to hide until now, and because of the corporations and states that have access to my data are lead right now by people I trust not to misuse that data"
But if tomorrow the government change, and suddenly your searches for "gay bars near my location" becomes illegal, you'd rather this info not be in everyone's hands...
Lack of privacy harms journalism and activism, making the government too powerful and not accountable. If only activists and journalists will try to have the privacy, it will be much easier to target them. Everyone should have privacy to protect them. It’s sort of like freedom of speech is necessary not just for journalists, but for everyone, even if you have nothing to say.