It will severely suck very, very soon. As soon as they destabilize govs enough to get away with severe abuse of info.

Edit: they are destabilizing the ahit out of them quickly. This world is now a nightmare and not worth living in. But yeah, let's criminalize abortions for kids who parents can't afford them so they can be condemned to evergrowing poverty, shittier qualities of life, and depression. Yay!

already fucked. Frog, boiling water etc.

Also "No time to protest, need to pay those bills somehow". And then "Too tired to protest". I don't like it but I understand.

The quality of life is already fucked, and that's what caused those people to rally behind current regimes who promised to fix everything using whatever opportunistic buzzwords like immigrants or national volk, turning to reaction.

I have trouble dating. People keep asking me how I expect to date without Instagram.

Fuck this timeline.

I think it is more if a human tendency than anything else

Most people have been trained from a young age to value convenience over basically everything else.

This is the deal. Yes. People, at least here in the US, equate personal liberty with convenience; which is why you saw people willing to kidnap governors over being forced to wear a facemask, or attacking Red Lobster employees for being slow in bringing another basket of cheese biscuits.

Also why dead kids aren't enough to get real progress on gun control.

I think when these tariffs really roll downhill and the supply chain is reconfigured within the next two years, the real and permanent impacts of Donald's cavalier and reckless economic policies will be in full effect.

This is accurate. I have a degoogled phone, no mainstream social media, and Linux OS. I have talked to my wife about the reason for my choices, so she is not ignorant about privacy or data gathering issues. She still uses Instagram and Facebook etc. And while she is a bit alarmed at bill C-2 being tabled in Canada (which would share Canadian private citizen info with the USA) I doubt she will think about it next week.

I've tried helping some spicy leftist groups and I'm still floored by how little the groups of people care who should absolutely know better. They will talk a big game but when it actually comes to implementation everyone immediately goes all "nothing to hide" like their years of constant guillotine reacts and memes won't be pulled out in court the second they try to argue entrapment against some bullshit ci/undercover op.

I don't think many people realize how aggressive a digital search warrant can get if you or someone dumber than you fucks around and finds that main character energy. At the end of the day you gotta absolutely minimize the amount of data that's retained long term on systems.

Do you leave your car or home unlocked with the keys in the door?

This is the best analogy, but people still don't get it because those doors & locks are invisible to them. It's all just technobabble to them, and the companies providing all that are doing their worst to keep it that way.

Sorry sir, we're all out of feudal aristocracy to execute and proletariat is too busy rallying behind their favorite ruling class public figure, so the best you'll get is ruling class on ruling class violence, with workers being the ones who die the most as a result and status quo not changing

The UK, the EU and soon the U.S. making it mandatory to give your ID when you want to see anything "NSFW".

Maybe also payment processors folding before puritan christian nationalists.

Basically, we've been waiting since the early 2010s for people in the "i have nothing to hide club" to figure out why they should protect their info. Now, they have built psychological profiles on us all to the point that their surveillance algos know what we are doing before we do. When the government further destabilizes just a little bit, everything we've ever done will be used against us. They will ramp up the abise as soon as they can get away with it. God help these company executives who are furries on the weekend and have unicorn tail buttplugs at parties. So many people are going to be cancelled over puritain rhetoric for nonsense tribial quirks that nobody should give af about.

I think the latest one is tea app.

https://apnews.com/article/tea-app-data-breach-leak-4chan-c95d5bb2cabe9d1b8ec0ca8903503b29

He’s considering reporting you for attempting to check out of the system. That is illegal and brings a stiff punishment.

That basically makes you a black hat hacker.

I wish I was joking or even exaggerating.

But talking, trying to explain does (sometimes) help. Like my boss who at first thought Linux was illegal.

Don't tell your boss these things

I don’t have anything to hide, but I don’t have anything I want to show either.