“…internet users watched govts do nothing about tech power for 2 decades. Surveillance capitalism was enabled because its practitioners operated in a lawless environment. It appropriated people’s data as a free resource & asserted its right to do so…”
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1374719403409948678
people are gonna buy it cheap if they are given that choice, they wouldn’t likely know the privacy drawbacks because they don’t weren’t told. if they knew from the start they would reconsider definitely, this is not people’s fault. It’s the greedy market.
No, I told it to those around me just out of curiosity. They don’t care, at all. Convenience and cheap prices are simply more important for most people.
don’t give them the option to talk to you through whatsapp, it works for me. even my grandma uses signal now.
or more conveniently, delete them from your life
Yup that’s what I did, now my friends use Telegram. At the time I didn’t know of other alternatives so I went with that.