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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

“My prehistoric brain can only think in ‘binary’ and doesn’t understand that development of a successful threat model doesn’t (and often can’t) be perfect, but any incremental change to my behavior and online practices in a way to prevent sensitive information from being shared and potentially utilized by malicious actors is a plus.

Instead of thinking about all of that, I’m going to reduce the whole subject to a nice and neat logical fallacy of ‘online privacy is terrible nowadays, thus it doesn’t matter what I do’ “

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I don’t think I’ve had an issue on Firefox other than some sites saying “unsupported browser,” which is really the site’s fault.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There’s worse.

They already know everything about me anyways. If I can exchange my data for some free and easy to use service, I’m more than happy to give.

I hate defeatism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Its not even defeatism, its willingly sacrificing themselves to the machine in hopes it will be merciful!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

True.

And they’ll follow that up with a somewhat snarky comment that “You’ll be eliminated by the machines first.”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

"chrome was hogging up my ram" is the dumbest part of all of this lmao, this person's decisionmaking is completely driven by placebo and it's hilarious

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago

It’s something they saw in a meme once and now they take it for fact.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

If it wasnt beaten by this, it comes a very close 2nd: "Firefox is trash at loading HTML websites".

You can tell that fucker spends their time gibbering techno waffle bollcoks to old people!

[–] kekmacska 14 points 3 hours ago

"i don't have anything to hide" mfs when their passwords get leaked:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

I mean, yeah, privacy isn't really a thing in our digital surveillance age. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna make it as hard as possible for them. Make em work for it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The claim to have "nothing to hide" was not just born our of ignorance, but also out of comfort - to not having to do anything about it.

Now that even the last one accepted that they do indeed have something to hide, but in order to justify their own inaction, it's labeled as inevitable: privacy is not real.

They are lying to themselves, because doing otherwise would mean they have to admit being wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

The 'nothing to hide' argument seems a lot like that 'first they came for socialists and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist...' quote. Sure you have nothing to hide right now, but what happens when something you weren't hiding becomes a target.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I use Edge on my work laptop because:

  • Vertical Tabs
  • Logs into my SSO account
  • Leaks info from my computer like a sieve (it's my employer's info, and they don't deserve privacy)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

A lot of people have just accepted surviellance for convienience.

People close to me get TSA precheck even though it requires fingerprinting, because "the government already has your fingerprints"

But if they did, why would they need to ask your for them?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago

Depending on what people do, the government already has their fingerprints.

Personally, I work around schools so I had to get a background check and fingerprinted for that. I also am licensed to handle explosives, both federally and at the state level. I been fingerprinted for that. I've gone through TSA for hazmat endorsement on a commercial driver's license. That needed fingerprints and a background check.

Getting fingerprinted to get through airport security is the least of my privacy concerns.

But my threat model isn't the TSA. They aren't a concern of mine, although I do opt out of their facial recognition.

I am concerned with internet surveillance, corporate surveillance, and communication surveillance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Sorry for devil's advocate here because I agree with you but hypothetically the answer would be verification. ie., Google already has your password, so why would they need to ask you for it when you log in?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 hour ago

Don't post screenshots of text

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 hours ago

"If people say edge is bad they should consider thinking about your windows 11 os lol"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

~Normies~ bots

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Get off Reddit. Karma grind is not worth it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Agree, I am primarily on lemmy now. People here are way nicer to each other than Reddit

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

People here are way nicer to each other than Reddit

If one has the right kind of opinions. 🤷

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Never say privacy. Always say libre software. That's why.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

chromium is still 'libre' though, so I don't think that's enough

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

You don't have a better two word attack.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

but it was trash at loading html websites

as opposed to websites written in excel 2003 format or what

[–] kekmacska 2 points 3 hours ago

there are many more type of websites, other than html

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago

Bro's from the timeline where Flash became the dominant species.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago

"hello i am u/NotBillGates and I agree with this message"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, how did you get three complete troglodytes in one place?

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

html websites

These aren't normies. They're children.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago

This honestly reads like a bad commercial you'd hear on the radio.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

An excuse to still be right.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

The op in that post is 14 years old at most. Just look at how that shot is tailored.

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