Comment on As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. đĽ˛
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works â¨10⊠â¨months⊠agoFOSS and focus on privacy does that to some people, they feel superior because they worry about those things they see as being beneficial.
Iâm sure many of the users from the before time were here specifically to not use a closed source, data gathering platform, so theyâre a bigger proportion of users than they were on Reddit and they tolerate the most extreme elements of their community that also happen to be the most vocal.
THED4NIEL@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Sometimes those extreme privacy preachers remind me of doomsday preppers.
I too reduced my data finger print, started using uBlock, thought more often if the data in a registration form is really needed for the service they provide (and didnât register when in doubt), and so onâŚ
I donât have Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter (anymore), the only things I have are Reddit, Lemmy and Mastodon.
Still I donât inspect every bit going through my network with Wireshark and PiHole to see, if some packet sent while watching a movie may contain personal data. At some point you gotta live a little instead of full-time fear mongering, doomsday preaching for the tech apocalypse.
I have reduced my digital fingerprints by a large margin with common sense, I donât need a 100% privacy speedrun, what counts is that you do something. And the effects show, especially in the form of less spam and recommendations for items youâll never need.
Google knows which topics I search for, big whoop, wouldnât be much of a search engine otherwise.