[freebuju]

Privacy or any other illusion of it on the internet, is mostly a game of musical chairs. If it's not GAFAM getting your data, it's 3 letter agencies. Or worse, both.

True anonymity has no place on the clearnet. The sooner we come into acceptance with this fact, the better we'll be able to protect ourselves from this rigged game. [0]

Tor is the only place you can go to find anonymity. I agree, if your goal is not to be tracked, by any of the above adversaries, go offline. We tend to laugh at guys who attempt this and call them looney, but it won't be so funny in the not-so-far-away future given how communication tech is advancing at such a fast pace with things such as 5G and IoT. It's easy to see governments achieve total surveillance within the next half-century.

I also agree that not enough spotlight is shone on government's ability to coerce tech companies to hand over user data, whether live monitored or subpoena'd. These tech companies like to play-act all tough e.g Apple, but the reality is they apply for business licenses & other similar considerations from the govt. It wouldn't be far-fetched to deduce such favors esp ones that come with competitive advantage in an industry come with hidden strings attached. Am not surprised to see govts such as UK's brazenly attempt to put backdoors into encryption technologies. [1]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/02/capitol... (LONG READ ALERT)

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/uk-trying-to-stop-facebook-end-t...