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0 pointsFirmwareBurner2y ago0 comments

>but your personal standard for privacy is way out of line with what the vast vast majority of people consider privacy nowadays. Up to you if you want to spend your life living in anger at that or not.

I'm not living in anger, I'm just not comfy sharing my data with Chinese companies and their random cloud services. I think that applies to most people actually.

Yes the ship has long sailed on the online privacy of the Average Joe who's already knees deep in Google, Meta, Tinder, Microsoft, Amazon, etc, but that doesn't mean I should just bend over to more of those from China as well.

Privacy is not binary, as in you either have it or you don't, but you can actively control and limit how much you give away once you're educated on the subject and willing to invest a few clicks through cookie banners, ad blockers, etc.

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marcinzm2y ago· 1 in thread

Unless China can use it's data on me to perform blackmail directly I could care less. Now the US government or US companies are a different story. They can correlate tons of data, impact life decisions (credit scores, medical coverage, insurance rates, etc.), cause significant impact (suspect in police investigations, tax audits, etc.), go after me for perceived damages (in court or less legally like those ebay executives, etc.), etc. The police of any country put innocent people into jail every single day. Them I'm worried about not some nebulous threat from China.

FirmwareBurnerOP2y ago

>Unless China can use it's data on me to perform blackmail directly I could care less.

You're probably not an Uighur.

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