GreenShimada

Don't be afeared, be bold. Be brave. Know you are taking a great leap forward that others are too timid to take.

We should start a co-op that buys advertising data on people that say stuff like this and then bombards them with spam that says "You have nothing to hide, [name]! You want everyone to know you love [advertising data entry tied to them]"

I dunno....

looks at pile of discarded lint rollers covered in saliva

Lightly used lint roller and wet tongue? Fuzzy and tacky but slippery. Unless you dry out your tongue first, then it'll just stick in a weird and unsatisfying way.

Because the emus were playing 5D chess. Their diplomatic stonewalling is what ultimately won them the war.

He 100% didn't think this would result in criminal charges. A lot of people don't think through the "how will this company with lawyers react to my petty nonsense?" when doing stuff like this.

If someone tells them to, they might try until a few business interests remind them that these are also fundamental components of business networks. Once money tells them to stop it, they will.

VPN companies should just hire a lobbyist for a week and this will all go away.

Exactly this. There's maybe 8 politicians in the whole world that understand what a VPN is. They're told by a lobbyist and donor that it's a thing that is bad, now they're out to figure out how to make it go away.

I've been tired of it since 2016.

The worst part is whenever you see some subjective word use like this, and then you dig into the actual source event or material, 99% of the time, it's absolutely nothing. Oh, did T "melt down" by tweeting in all caps? Ah yes, so rare, an occurrence. And not just articles about him, but usually articles about his reaction as being something crazy or whatever suffer from this kind of hyperbole.

Also in the same category are articles with "will" or "can" or some other version of "maybe maybe maybe" or "likely to" in the headline. 99% of the time, no it won't. It's just a workaround for Betteridge's law of headlines (any headline with a question mark can be answered "no") that any article that suggests something might happens can be answered with "nah, probably not."

Consent?

As if any of these people want to talk to ME for 3 hours?

PLEASE check out any privacy community on Lemmy, PrivacyGuides.org, or ugh....even /r/Privacy

Saying "I have nothing to hide" does nothing but empower the surveillance state. You are living in a surveillance state and advertising tracking data is how you are tracked.

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Oooh, no. You see the same thing from conservatives and especially conspiracy theory people. It's fundamental to their worldview.

"They" somehow have complete and total control over their lives. "They" make them make bad decisions, eat poorly, drink and drive, make them vote for dickbags - you name it. It's an emotional crutch used to negate accepting responsibility for actions, the need for critical thought and planning, or one's own agency as a human to do anything to change their situation.

Back around 2010 when my family would say "They" were going to take their guns away or put them in FEMA camps, I asked who "They" were. Did this for a few years and it eventually stopped being a Boogey man because it forces putting a name to the evil, which most folks like that can't do.