Or have to go through great lengths to escape.

In my country you can’t buy any medicine without showing your ID… I mean, you technically can, but if you are registered they “give” like an 80% discount, so everyone thinks it’s a great deal, not realizing that’s the normal price, they are just pretending you can still go and buy a simple cold medicine without sharing your ID, phone, email, and street address with the drug store and whoever they decide to sell that information to, you just have to pay absurdly more. Yeah, you can lie about all the other information, but not really about your ID number. Probably soon, to get the “discount”, you are going to have to verify your email or phone number as well.

    • credit cards, debit cards, and now cashless vendors
    • flock cameras
    • google, fb, and amazon scooping everything I do online
    • license plate readers on cop cars and on random parking lots
    • my work computer taking screenshots, listening, and even scanning how long I spend reading an email to make sure I am not ignoring the nonsense the company directors send us about how great AI is and that we all have to use it EVERY FUCKING DAY
    • membership cards
    • I can’t think of more right now, but there are more
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      it’s so dystopian when I travel to countries where cashless vendors are a thing. Recently Germany took me by surprise, they have been a bastion of cash for a long time, and during my last trip there were many restaurants with “no cash accepted” signs. Just like in the UK or Norway where privacy is already a lost cause

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      I’ve effectively excised fb from my life and i’m becomming kinda proud since so many people still struggle with that one.

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      You can escape the big tech tracking by installing uBlock Origin in your browser, and if you use their services, disabling personalised ads and search/activity history in their accounts.

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        escape the big tech tracking by installing uBlock Origin

        Cloudflare and AWS say “Hi” 👋

        UBO is a very good tech that I strongly recommend too though. Just gotta be aware of its limits.

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          Let them build a profile on me I never see their ads anyway. I can minimize but not escape it if I want to partake in modern society.

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          Cloudflare just checks for bot activity and AWS is just a hosting provider. They don’t use data for ads or sell it to anyone.

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            The original claim was about tracking (“escape the big tech tracking”), so here AWS and Cloudflare are definitely relevant. The content, including input, also flows through them I think? It’s specifically unencrypted if I get it right.

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            Hahaha I got a sandbox to sell you in the Sahara. Everyone is selling data or ads they are not leaving money on the table.