Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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The approach to privacy seems to be blaming people for not guessing how to properly hide their private information from malicious actors when people are also expected to use that same data daily to interact with the world.
How about we actually punish the ones that collect private data without consent and those that abuse private data? Like actual prison time for CEOs of companies that do these things.
I'm all for it. I'm not sure what laws actually exist in the USA related to this, which is, I imagine, why it's so pervasive. Some states have started passing legislation to help their residents protect their privacy, but until we have something on a national level it's going to be an issue.
Even though it seems like common sense, our current society is ruled by profit and extraction, not decency. Throwing CEOs and boards in prison with a lot of publicity sure could be a way to change that...
If you ever once donate to a candidate or sign up for a candidate newsletter, you are forever on some master list and can never get off it. You can unsubscribe from individual candidate lists, but every year when new candidates join, they’ll just put you on those candidate’s lists and you’ll have to unsubscribe all over again. It’s obnoxious as hell and should be illegal. And, I might be interested to hear from a political candidate from time to time, but it’s not like that. They email you up to 5 times a day with annoying click-spammy titles.
My personal phone number is different from the number I use for dmv, documents, banking so I don't get telemarketer ads or whatever.
I use ublock, vpn with filter block, dns with adblocking
I pretty much only use lemmy and I use ddg for search engine.
I don't think I've ever seen a political ad. Perhaps when I used youtube's app but I use libretube, newpipe, youtube piped now.
I'm inclined to believe this, but what I see is laughably bad. I've agreed with the premise of Sandy Hook Promise since before the Sandy Hook Massacre, yet they've been pounding me with ads for years. Every once in a while, I get a halfhearted "But Trump is pretty cool, isn't he?" Which will never be clicked. And, when I watched a reaction channel do Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I got a shit-ton of "God hates fagz!" And was pretty glad to see them wasting their money on me.
Lol, "highly accurate". I get constant political texts, but they have the wrong number. Its fun replying, just sending goatse has gotten boring so its forcing me to be more creative. I'll never text "STOP", wasting political resources gives me the warm fuzzies inside.