Do we underestimate the importance of privacy?
https://bridges-to-the-future.simplecast.com/episodes/do-we-underestimate-the-importance-of-privacy
> [A Facebook button]
> ...
> Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data.
Okay, inconsistent bullshit. >> trashbin
@pino_ac I doubt the guest (aka, the one that is arguing for privacy) has any control over the analytics on the website.
Yes, I make the same rant from time to time and get always the same answer.
But: Failed anyway. When I as a reader am confronted with such a big contradiction, it's failed.
Do they think that FB is not major part of the problem they adress? If not, why didn't they come up with that some years ago when it was not too late to publish stuff without FB buttons?
I mean, nice... But it's its own proof to be too late.
> Do they think that FB is not major part of the problem they adress?
Obviously not. But my orignal point remains.
> If not, why didn't they come up with that some years ago when it was not too late to publish stuff without FB buttons?
Carissa Véliz has been invloved in researching privacy since the Snowden leaks. As an accademic, they took time to write a book to spread their findings to the masses. This podcast was promoting that book, which can be purchased with cash.
@freddy It's _literally_ like promoting vegan lifestyle with a hotdog in one hand.
In a world where only hotdogs exist, there may be many good reasons for that. Maybe there was no better way (on the other hand, why promoting vegan lifestyle then, if this is impossible to implement, as you've just proven?).
But failed is failed is failed...
@pino_ac I understand your point.
Privacy advocates are a minority. By publishing content on larger sites we can attract a larger audience. Otherwise we're just preaching to the converted.
The goal is to spread privacy. Let's not argue about how we do it.
@pino_ac It's no good asking why others did not care or why they did nothing. We cannot do anything about that. What we can do is take action now, and if these sorts of articles and podcasts help then so be it.
What we could do a decade ago wasn't less. But all the privacy smarties started to spawn their twitter and facebook accounts.
Yesss.... Sure.... They should give it a try. I mean, why not? It doesn't hurt me....
But they will not help. You did everything possible to actively postpone that problem to the moment when it is too late (proof: the facebook button on that page). And that point is well reached since some time.
Have fun.... Good luck... Or whatever...
@freddy
And again: If you cannot address that audience (i.e. 99% of the people) without a facebook button, then start all your doing with answering _that_ question:
What went so terribly wrong and who has failed it what dramatic ways, that led to the current situation? Find _that_ error. Reflect about it. And fix that. The root issue. It was easy to fix a decade ago, but nobody (but me) was interested. Why was that? Where were those people sleeping for so long?