"XYZ company already has all my data so I don't care that they're spying on me and selling my data to advertisers"
Fucking makes my blood boil. These people have absolutely zero critical thinking skills, or self respect
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I’m the same, but I try to explain the errors of their ways in the most relaxed manner.
Most times it doesn’t make a difference but once in a while someone is receptive and makes a change. and it’s really rewarding.
It has been theorized once 25% of the population accepts an opinion the rest tends to follow, so I try to be optimistic and take it one step at a time. Lately I’ve had the impression I’m seeing progress.
The thing is though, that most people don't know why that's a problem, and privacy advocates seem to think that 'you've got a door on your bathroom' is a gotcha.
If someone is giving Google their home address and work address, and planning the route to get traffic data, they're not going to be concerned when Google Maps suggests their work address as a destination through the week. Same for their shopping data. 'Of course Amazon knows what I like, I do my shopping there!'
We need better ways to explain it to people who don't understand it, and who are not interested in it or the tech behind it. We have a big problem on Lemmy where we tend to assume that everyone understands the same issues as us, just not as well.
If someone is giving Google their home address and work address, and planning the route to get traffic data, they’re not going to be concerned when Google Maps suggests their work address as a destination through the week.
It isn't that they aren't concerned, that is actually something many people see as a benefit. Yes, I still use google maps because it remembers destinations and has traffic density alerts and a bunch of other stuff that require tracking but those are a separate thing from google selling that tracking data to third parties. The former is a benefit and the latter is a problem.
That's part of my point. For most people, giving Google their data means things like their travel info. The majority of people don't understand that tracking data is different, or what it means. When you tell them not to give their data to big corporations, they think you mean any data, and don't know that they can get data that you might not want shared
I dislike the “privacy fiends” that hang around those subs/forums/instances but try to debate you out of trying. The “akschaully that wouldn’t work because…” people. Who are they helping?
Totally agree. Perfect is the enemy of good. If people would just drop meta, and Microsoft. That would go a long way and would be pretty easily achievable for most people.
Alphabet would be huge but because most phones run android (including my own), that's a big ask, too big without a good viable alternative ATM
That any website outside of corpo net is the Evil Dark Web. I can't stand my tech illiterate friends that refuse to use the fediverse or any non tracking YouTube links. If a site is HTML only they shit their pants.
When did people get so dumb about computers ? Man.
People with no technical background insisting that “AI” is taking over and is sentient, even when I try to explain how it actually works. They refuse to believe that maybe all of those breathless “news” articles are clickbait hype-mongering.
“You just don’t like it because it’s gonna take your job!” Keep believing that, imbeciles.
I hear a lot of people worrying about this being the case in the future but I don't remember hearing anyone claiming that about our current LLMs.
The idea that people are available 24/7.
“Computer illiterate” isn’t silly and funny to say anymore. Computers have been around since the 80s. Get with the program. Oh and doing a quick Google search yourself can solve a good 70-80% of issues. Stop calling the help desk immediately.
I'm old and tech-y, and my contemporaries still use the "I'm too old to learn" line on me - and then ask me to sort out their issue. Deeply annoying.
I'm legit scared of that. Im only in my 30s and my capacity for learning has diminished greatly since I was a child. What if that trajectory continues?
I dont wanna be "too old to learn these newfangled thingamabobs" when we get the next big thing.
I'm 73 and I reckon I'm learning more now than when I was in my 20s. I have a few things I'm interested in and I have a real thirst to know more about them. Not like in school where I was forced to remember a load of names and dates.
I might have hit a wall as far as tech goes though - I see people here on Lemmy talking about servers and I'm interested, but struggle to understand the basics.
That every generation of device is going to be the next greatest thing and they should all have huge leaps like in the early 2000's.
I doubt people switching from the rotary phones to touch tone phones were complaining a year later about not having something better from the phones.
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I fucking hate that word 'Innovation'. It is spammed by corporatebros who think their shit doesn't smell.
I don't know, but my view of technology being awesome and wonderful and the way to a better future has died, and that makes me sad
I'll try to answer the question. How about this worry so many people have that technology facilitating any level of privacy is only going to be used for evil purposes. Even non technology cases. "Why aren't you putting your real name and hometown?" Because it's not relevant to this situation and nobody's business! "Why are you refusing to be in this cute video we're making for the company social media presence?" Because I don't want my picture out there for everyone to see, and to be able to extrapolate where I live and who I work for
I think I got our company social media person to actually think I might have been serious when I eventually started saying I was under some kind of witness protection just to get out of it without having the same battle every time
I'm still awaiting the moment someone finally has a reason to legally insist on looking into my background or whatever after the whole "what shady activity or history are you hiding, always wanting your privacy and refusing to volunteer information about yourself" only to find I'm completely clean. No criminal record, no suspicious affiliations (unless Lemmy counts, hah), nothing incriminating. I've lived an extremely boring life. I just value my privacy
Something I absolutely hate is when people say shit like "do you sell an apple charger?" The complete ignorance of what port your device uses or even what it's called is infuriating. Look, you either have a usb-c or lightning port, and you only have a lightning port if your phone is from like a decade ago or something. You should know by now to look for usb-c cables. It's especially frustrating when they get angry at me when they don't understand what I'm talking about.
I'm a sales supervisor in an office supply store, and I get this ALL THE TIME! I once had someone argue with me over the name of the cable connectors and wondered why I didn't know what they were talking about. Then they said, and I quote, "Well, to me that's what I call them, so I'm going to just keep calling them that."
If you’re entering or exiting the tram, heads the fuck up.
na boy some peoplw be dumb as fuck. Some don't want but somenare incapable...as you can see by the state of the world
this post reads like an entitled youth complaining about old people.
you know that video of the kids that can't figure out how to use a rotary dial telephone? yeah, that's exactly what happens to old folks who can't figure out how to use a smart phone, or computer, or a smart TV, or a, or a, or a...
technological context is important. you can't just pick up a piece of technology and immediately understand how to use it. you have to understand not just how it works, but why it works the way it does. knowing the why takes a history of the whole feature.
it'd be like if I posted a meme you have zero context about and I make fun of you for not understanding it and call you an old dumb fuck for not grasping on the basic understandings of why it's funny.
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