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Is anyone actually surprised by this?

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

I shouldn't have anything to hide, but I'm part of a group the current fascist leadership in government want's to eradicate, so hide I shall.

That said, I also feel like people acting like the remote server they are connected to is tracking what you do on it as some kind of surprise is so stupid. "Facebook is keeping track of the pictures I uploaded to it!!!!" There's a lot of stuff to complain about Facebook, google, or whoever, but them tracking stuff you send to them willingly isn't one of them.

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

I shouldn’t have anything to hide, but I’m part of a group the current fascist leadership in government want’s to eradicate, so hide I shall.

I agree and i think a lot of people who espouse "nothing to hide" as an approach haven't actually thought it all the way through.

Then there's the fascists, dictators, oligarchs and other all around shitbags who just want the control.

That said, I also feel like people acting like the remote server they are connected to is tracking what you do on it as some kind of surprise is so stupid. “Facebook is keeping track of the pictures I uploaded to it!!!” There’s a lot of stuff to complain about Facebook, google, or whoever, but them tracking stuff you send to them willingly isn’t one of them.

This always surprises me, i originally thought it was because people didn't understand how these things work or how capitalist companies work.

More and more it seems like people don't care until it affects them, which is somewhat understandable, it takes effort to care about this stuff and a lot of people will never be directly affected by the consequences.

What i do still think is that the general population has no idea the extent of what can be done with all of the information they are volunteering.

That's very slowly changing but the usages of the data are also increasing at a much more rapid pace than before.