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by arsome 1768 days ago
Of course! I'm not suggesting it's a solution for everyone at all. Just realize that Grandma will never have privacy like that.

Corporations and governments combine to basically make privacy a niche thing for tinkerers only, you simply cannot mass-market the development attitudes nor technical and opsec skills needed to achieve a real degree of privacy on the user side.

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It's impossible to have privacy just for you in a society that otherwise doesn't have privacy. Think Facebook: even if you don't share much details, you friends certainly do. They will post your photos together and happily tag you on them, they will write how you hung out together, they will geo-tag your shared commutes, etc. Even if you don't share too many details with Apple/Google/Amazon/etc, your mobile carrier certainly does. Your Facebook/Twitter/TikTok does. Everyone around you does.

The solution to this problem does not lie in a technical plane, nor does it in digital escapism.