Slowly but surely and with the concurrent rise in governmental and parallel corporate incursions on consumer privacy, your product generates more and more profit as consumers descend into apathy. You've done nothing wrong- its all right there in your privacy policy that they agreed to in order to use your product. You have successfully made the cost and stress and research and troubleshooting necessary to defeat your spying so high that it simply isn't worth it to X% of consumers. If you keep this up frequently enough and for a long enough period of time, eventually the consumer will give up and just resign to their fate of having no privacy. Every time you do you restore to defaults giving you the data collection you desire, and you break previous attempts consumers used to protect their privacy. You keep changing privacy settings and keep changing privacy technologies. This is the way it works now- didn't you get the memo? How long until "privacy settings" and "firewalls" no longer give us the power to control such things? Are we already there and we just don't know it yet? I don't even have a privacy settings application in my Linux install because it doesn't compromise my privacy, but then how long will computer hardware allow FOSS options to be installed? but regardless of how all corporate products are moving to control us more and more. I'm not sure if its coming about due to the ubiquitous nature of powerful computer technology, because of 9/11 and its inspiring of our growing surveillance state, or even if its happening due to wider trends of deindustrialization in western society as well as an increasing consumerist narrative permeating the public psyche. You can use these tools to try and control Windows, but you are fundamentally locked in a battle of Microsoft using the playground they built to dictate which sand you can push around. At this point it really is about control. I get it- some people need to use Windows for work or games or a hobby or whatever, but damn. Good post- you have my upvote and my axe but.Īt this point I don't even remember how many times I've seen someone having to dig into their firewall, gateway firewall, or whatever to stop windows from screwing them it seems like there are tons of threads where someone like you has to come along in order for people to get protection from some other crap they just didn't know was screwing them. Orgīuilding the global movement for the protection of privacy. Related Subreddits:Ĭonsider donating to one of the organizations that fight for your rights. u/blackhawk_12 Subreddit Rules and Wikiīefore posting in /r/privacy, read the Sidebar Rules.Įnjoy our Wiki! It has all sorts of nifty advice and explains most topics you’re interested in if you’re reading this. "I don't have anything to hide but I don't have anything I want to show you either" Dedicated to the intersection of technology, privacy, and freedom in the digital world.
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