im serious. like unless you're doing illegal shits why should you throw away your convenience for a little bit more privacy? use windows, it just works
Is "more privacy" a meme
im serious. like unless you're doing illegal shits why should you throw away your convenience for a little bit more privacy? use windows, it just works
also i use edge btw
I don't want companies to know where I am and what I am doing 24/7. That's creepy.
but why should they care about you in the first place? there's millions of people for them to spy on
Hello, NSA!
I wouldn't be fine with a stranger knowing where I live, my habits, my likes, my dislikes etc. So why the hell should I just not care?
Windows also sucks balls.
No one cares about you Black person.
The fricking NSA, got trillions of billions and gazlion of pedos and they wont do shit because they are lazy homosexuals who cant get their shit done.
They got the tools. But they miss the goodwill.
F U C K THE NSA
AND FRICK EDAWRD SNOWDEN
AND FRICK CONTRACTORS
Do you not know how these tracking systems operate? It's not about "caring". They monitor everything and store the data indefinitely. There might not be a designated employee looking at the data related to me in real time 24/7, but there are permanent records of my every action being stored, which may be accessed at any time, and that is extremely creepy.
It is, among other things, about principle. It's harmful for society and no one should be allowed to hold this much power over people for even for fighting crime. Making money from data farming is even more absurd and is very much against the individual's interest economically as well.
>they care
You should really educate yourself on the subject. If they "didn't care", why do they collect the data? They obviously care very much, because it grants them power and/or profit. Almost everything is automatized. It's why it works at a huge scale.
Yes, privacy is a meme. It does not exist on the internet.
They already do.
They don’t. People just have big egos and think they’re important.
Nobody cares about you, and they’ll never analyze your data.
Nobody is doing this, because you’re neither important nor interesting.
The botnet has already shown itself through its greed. Advertisements, personalized start pages.
The more you feed, the more they know.
>the more you feed, the more they seed
>Nobody cares about you, and they’ll never analyze your data
They still store it. Why store it when they'll never use it?
>Nobody cares about you, and they’ll never analyze your data.
Nobody cares about me NOW. They probably never will, but I guarantee there are other people who currently aren't on the glowers' radar that eventually will be.
>Nobody is doing this, because you’re neither important nor interesting.
Grab everything in the case they DO become important or interesting.
See the point?
You morons are so used to living at glass houses that you think privacy is a meme. That private companies and the government have a right to snoop on your personal life in exchange of shovelwhare. You are hardly people anymore, just lab grown rats.
Linux users like tinkering with the system.
Unfortunately windows has anti-tinker technology. Very sad day indeed
Post you email and password so we go through it. If you're not doing any illegal shit then you've nothing to worry about. Or would you feel better if only a few of us went through it and sold information about your email to everyone else?
>Hello fellow non-CIA employees, why don't you give up on privacy altogether? It will make your life so much better! Just install windoze and you're all set
This thread glows
It's not "glowing", get real.
It might not matter, but it's part of the hobby I guess, just to see how much someone could "seal the leak"
>blackpilled
cringe
i value my privacy online as i am not a sexual deviant who gets off on exhibitionism.
You're 100% right OP.
There's no such thing as privacy on the internet. The main concern is glowBlack folk need hard repeated evidence linking you to doing such activities to present in court with papers they can present so what it comes down to is you need an OS that is uncrackable and leaves behind no evidence so you use tailsOS. No evidence=no sentencing or very little jail time and negotiations with these slimy bastards.
So really that's the only time you'd use anything other than windows. An OS that is built for privacy to make it very hard to be tracked and leave dirt. Have tailsOS running on a Thinkpad plugged in with no battery on your desk so you can unplug it in an instant powering off. You could even buy a remote control smart plug that you can turn off with your phone instantly killing the thinkpad and all its data.
For everything else just use windows 10, debloat with privatezilla and have good opsec like running your own email server off a PI that can be nuked remotely(important if they try to get receipts from purchases or what you spend your money on to prove that you have illegal income), not using google(use yandex) as a search engine.
That's about it mane.
>tailsOS
It's called Tails
>remote control smart plug
Internet of shit
>windows 10
>yandex
moron detected
lets hear your solution then.
Taking steps to be more private, while also not inconveniencing yourself too much
Try to replace as many invasive services/software with privacy-respecting ones
For search: duckduckgo (no the trackers are in the browser), brave or some random searx instance
See if linux can run all the software you need
>https://www.privacyguides.org/
Yes, you'll never be 100% private, but the less info your computer gives away about you, the better
OP points still stands, there's no reason to trade convenience for privacy when windows 10 is so functional and is only used for video games and video consumption. If the government gets a hold of your computer and it doesn't store all of its contents in the ram its going to get cracked doesn't matter whether it's a desktop linux distro with encryption or windows 10. With enough time it will be cracked. Either by brute force or coercion. The only data that is safe is data that doesn't exist.
The problem is that it isn't opt out. It's a given that anytime you use the internet you are being spied on. That's the problem. It doesn't matter if you're not a pedo.
Well I am a pedo and I'd rather not be spied on, thank you very much.
>unless you're doing illegal shits
Including illegal abortions in the US? Or maybe torrenting movies?
My country can put to jail for a titty shown on web camera (up to 5 years).
Data is collected, it may be even legal now, but there could be a day, when everything changes.
would you stream your living room to the police just because if they want they can get in anyway?
Is "free speech" a meme? I'm serious. Unless you are saying illegal shits why would you throw away your convenience for a little bit more freedom of speech? Just join the collective, you will be happy
Frick off troony
The internet was a mistake and corpohomosexual is unavoidable cancer.
I think of it like having the same person serving and catering you *everywhere*. How would it look to you if the store cashier *in all possible stores in the world*, any kind of clerk, all maintenance guys and every service person imaginable was the same person with the same memory?
It struct me when I got myself my first smartphone around 2010. It was simply too much for me that I was FORCED to be logged into my Google account at all times to make the thing work. Made me anxious to do my other bullshit Google stuff with other devices too. IT'S THE SAME MAN EVERYWHERE.
You'll understand if you ever get your identity stolen. The government and private companies are careless with other people's data.
Because I'm doing illegal things.
>just works
I hear this to defence of apple products all the time an honestly it just sounds like an attempt to justify buying an overpriced device that can do nothing from what other devices cant. This meme talking point just shows your inability to explain why your device is better than any other device you can buy for half a price
You don't give up your convenience. Actually, modern privacy respecting systems can be even more convenient as well as faster, less resource hungry (because they don't waste computational power of your hardware and electricity to spy on you), more customizable, functional, secure and stable than privacy-intrucive ones
i think he also means softwares
demoralization thread. but for any genuine poor schmuck feeling hopeless:
not all illegal things are necessarely bad, not all legal things are looked at as acceptable.
whats legal or not can change at any moment (see this whole abortion thing going on)
the power that they have over people through these kinds of services is massive and has been abused before and will be again (easy examples are edward snowden and assange, both who just exposed the truth)
you make yourself vulnerable by having no privacy, as you show your weaknesses both as an individual and help these people learn how everyone in general works
you dont need to be specifically targeted to be hurt by this, with this kind of data its easier to make propaganda, you might be kicked out of services for bullshit reasons (see microsoft blocking sales to windows in russia)
and while not directly related to it, they gain a ton of money from selling your data, so you give them direct power to not only abuse your privacy but frick you up in any way they wanna.
It's all fun and games until something you've done your entire life suddenly becomes "illegal"
I hate the concept of someone "knowing me" without having actually met me. So I don't want my personal information to be able to get to anyone that doesn't know me. Therefore, I want to be private online so random autists and companies can't get my information. I would like to say the same against the govt, but that's a hard task to accomplish.
Not only that, but being private also protects you. If you aren't private, you will be preyed upon by companies by using targeted ads against you, designed to make you waste money on things you don't need.
Being private online allows me to separate my online and real life completely, meaning what happens on one will have little to no consequences on the other. I can do what I want online and as long as its not illegal it will have no repercussions on me. The only illegal thing I do is distributing movies/tv shows by seeding torrents.
And lastly, I simply hate the Antichrist and want to stick it to society by not playing along and being a sheep.
In order to achieve these noble goals, I will happily give up some convenience. How I usually frame it is that people managed to live without any of this to begin with, so my computer being complicated to work with and not very convenient is still loads better than not having a computer at all, so it doesn't bother me. I will not let my life be degraded by sacrificing everything for convenience.
you're a nobody and no one will will "know you" without having met you. noone knows you and they prefer to keep it that way
Yes, I've constructed my life with that goal and its been successful. Not rocking the boat is the best way to stay hidden.
Same reason I don't like taking a shit with the door open. It's just uncomfortable.
i can't speak for everyone but i personally in my unrepentant normalhomosexualry consider privacy infringement as a kind of boiled-frog situation, much like free speech law. it seems useless and you don't have to care for it at all if you're a status quo person, but there's always the chance of the situation degenerating. i prefer to be on the preventative and cautionary side seeing how things are going currently.
Just thought of this. I wonder how well it would work on normalgays.
"How come when it's a person that knows every detail about our lives, we consider them a stalker, but when it's a company it's 'just how things are'?"
The link doesn't work
using loonix, googling privacy tools, and having no social media only tells the glowies you're a dangerous one.
>googling
you have no idea what you are talking about.