[arinlen]

> It's hard to believe I have to say that after the many decades of people getting it drilled into their heads "Do not open random email attachments" (...)

You need to take a step back and figure out what you're failing to understand before going into these "everyone is a fool" rants.

One of the reasons people don't understand the risks is the fact that, by design, these risks don't exist at the eye of the end user. No one knows, not even you, how many servers are being hit when you click on a link.

You're opening emails, you're clicking a link, and hundreds of requests are flying out of your browser right under your nose to God knows where. How many of them are requesting useless images you never saw? How many if them are reporting telemetry data on how you're using a website? You do not know. Why are you whining about other not knowing as well?

Privacy is a hard problem because everyone is using a system explicitly designed to transfer information around without any control or supervision. Up until now the best tool we have at our disposal is a set of laws that require companies to disclose and delete data they collect on us.

Blaming the end user for clicking links is victim blaming, and demonstrates a colossal amount of ignorance about the problem domain.