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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

“My prehistoric brain can only think in ‘binary’ and doesn’t understand that development of a successful threat model doesn’t (and often can’t) be perfect, but any incremental change to my behavior and online practices in a way to prevent sensitive information from being shared and potentially utilized by malicious actors is a plus.

Instead of thinking about all of that, I’m going to reduce the whole subject to a nice and neat logical fallacy of ‘online privacy is terrible nowadays, thus it doesn’t matter what I do’ “

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago

Don't post screenshots of text

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I don’t think I’ve had an issue on Firefox other than some sites saying “unsupported browser,” which is really the site’s fault.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

I mean, yeah, privacy isn't really a thing in our digital surveillance age. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna make it as hard as possible for them. Make em work for it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

"chrome was hogging up my ram" is the dumbest part of all of this lmao, this person's decisionmaking is completely driven by placebo and it's hilarious

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It’s something they saw in a meme once and now they take it for fact.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago

If it wasnt beaten by this, it comes a very close 2nd: "Firefox is trash at loading HTML websites".

You can tell that fucker spends their time gibbering techno waffle bollcoks to old people!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I use Edge on my work laptop because:

  • Vertical Tabs
  • Logs into my SSO account
  • Leaks info from my computer like a sieve (it's my employer's info, and they don't deserve privacy)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago

"i don't have anything to hide" mfs when their passwords get leaked:

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There’s worse.

They already know everything about me anyways. If I can exchange my data for some free and easy to use service, I’m more than happy to give.

I hate defeatism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Its not even defeatism, its willingly sacrificing themselves to the machine in hopes it will be merciful!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

True.

And they’ll follow that up with a somewhat snarky comment that “You’ll be eliminated by the machines first.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, how did you get three complete troglodytes in one place?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

The claim to have "nothing to hide" was not just born our of ignorance, but also out of comfort - to not having to do anything about it.

Now that even the last one accepted that they do indeed have something to hide, but in order to justify their own inaction, it's labeled as inevitable: privacy is not real.

They are lying to themselves, because doing otherwise would mean they have to admit being wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 42 minutes ago

i think its a propganda to destroy privacy like the one "police are public protector" only the high ups and they know what police means but the general public dont .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

The 'nothing to hide' argument seems a lot like that 'first they came for socialists and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist...' quote. Sure you have nothing to hide right now, but what happens when something you weren't hiding becomes a target.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

~~Normies~~ bots

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

An excuse to still be right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Off-topic, but I do agree in general that Edge is a solid browser. I use it when I'm at work and really love the vertical tabs and tab groups. I use firefox for personal use and am patiently waiting for the vertical tabs on the stable release (and not just in about:config).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I do fall into that way of thinking sometimes and in discussions and such, but even then, i still take steps to maintain a level of privacy. It's for stupid reasons, I'm admittedly not knowledgeable whatsoever on data privacy. (As in, why is it necessary since we already carry a lot of data collection devices with us as we go around that I know most people dont even think about.) But it makes me just feel better, I guess.

Most of my friends have actually moved away from Firefox to more tailored browsers like opera, which i think is much worse in terms of data protection. (again, uninformed. It's just something I've seen thrown around, feel free to correct me if that's wrong.) At times, it really is quite easy to start thinking like the people highlighted in the post. I'm 22, and have a degree in computer science. There was a module on data security, but it was mostly focussed on data leaks and encryption methods rather than the 'philosophy' on why data protection is important. Even in the final year of uni, people were being quite flippant with it.

It's probably just a cultural shift, as more and more companies collect mass amounts of user data, people gradually get more comfortable with the idea I guess. Especially with gen alpha, who are born into a world where it's just a fact that all companies are actively farming your data. To them, it's not something to be concerned about whatsoever. There was never a time in which they had privacy, especially since they are introduced to technology before they can even speak, write, or remember.

What I've put above is mostly just waffle honestly, but I hope it provides something to someone LMAO.

Edit to add stuff: I guess to make the point more obvious, for younger generations it's because privacy just isn't real for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Hopefully the Trump presidency is a wake up call in the importance of privacy. As we slowly move towards fascism, privacy becomes more important than ever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Never say privacy. Always say libre software. That's why.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

chromium is still 'libre' though, so I don't think that's enough

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

You don't have a better two word attack.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Get off Reddit. Karma grind is not worth it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Agree, I am primarily on lemmy now. People here are way nicer to each other than Reddit

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

People here are way nicer to each other than Reddit

If one has the right kind of opinions. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Maybe the communites that I am in is too wholesome ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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