At this point I've been using it so long I don't much care. if they wanted to have dirt on me they already got it and its too late to change that now unless someone has a nervous breakdown and wipes their servers.
I never used facebook or any real social media ever so that's good.
It's not about you. It's the systemic problems caused by having monopolies that would have been broken up already in another era, the unique problems caused by information processing at scale simply not possible in the 20th century, and the creeping neoliberal influence of their algorithms into functions of government.
Google are buying our health data. There is simply no way anybody consented to that.
Facebook literally has a war room of detecting and fucking up anything in the "social space" by any means necessary. If you started a niche social network site with 1k users, you'd be on their radar and the target of their highly anti-competitive tactics.
Brainlet, "I have nothing to hide" is false, everyone has something to hide, no one wants to be seen fucking, jerking off, eating, do you leave the curtains of your house open? Do you give your password to people you don't know?
I know that calling people stupid/retarded doesn't help but they act like that. For some of us its hard to organize when you are busy with shit like school or work constantly and in right wing places where no one takes you seriously.
At this point they already have it, I'm not a hacker nor a rich person with money to spend on a lawyer; I can't get them to delete the information they have.
Get off your high horse kid.
I am aware, just pointing out that in my personal case switching from google to something else is pointless. Even if I were to completely overhaul all my systems and passwords and all that other shit, they already have information for the past years of my life and that's plenty already. Most of it isn't even important.
Yes I know, but there are always tricks to get around that.
The idea of me (personally) starting up a niche social network is laughable.
Look bud, I'm not denying the issues at hand, far from it, I was just commenting on how I personally (and likely many others) are so deep in this shit that changing it will be hard and pointless.
Well it's your choice but you know you are a defeatist.
The other user said this isn't about you, but the truth is that it both is and isn't, if we're talking about the overall effect this has on society then yes it's not about you.
If we're talking about how they use this data you feed them constantly to manipulate your emotions and thoughts, then it is very much about you as an individual and working to unchain your mind from their manipulation.
At the least, be aware of what they're trying to do to you.
Agreed, you really can't "fight" on your own, you can avoid it with other software and have to spread the word, if they don't listen to you then they never had the mindset to look for a change in the first place.
That wasn't always the case. The 90s internet was run by literal kids running boards, forums, chatrooms. I knew a collage student ran an MMORPG off his campus network.
Isn't it sad that what actually happened has been rendered unimaginable.
This is history repeating itself. The cottage industries couldn't compete with the capitalist factories. Soon factories is all there was, and people could hardly dream of the countryside and fresh air.
It would be great if some user did a guide to navigate through the internet being free of the botnet. Like, what linux distro would he recommend, tips and that stuff. Some of us are actual brainlets who don't understand shit
Go to the installgentoo wiki. I'm barely starting but use a Debian based distro for your first experiencie, be careful with Linux Mint since it's known to be easily backdoored. Ubuntu MIGHT be botnet but no one knows really, probably not but keep that in mind. Use Firefox and check the wiki for extensions, go to Privacytools.io