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[–] -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Basically, most of the internet won't work right, if you don't allow the browsers to track you. I have had a very strict Firefox setting and kept having to create exception to every site I visited just get in.

You can boycot the sites but in the end, you'll be missing out on everything really

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That's just about numbers. Most sites will adjust, if enough users are turning away to another site that are less intrusive.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I hope so - it doesn't seem to work with platforms like facebook, twitter, reddit. We have had massive exodus from those too, but they keep growing and making money. People don't value privacy, if it gets in the way of convenience, socializing and entertainment

    With some workplaces using Facebook messenger even, to plan shifts, you practically get forced to have accounts places where you wouldn't

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't disagree... but we must keep the pressure up. I know I've helped a little more than 10 people leave FB and Google (and most of Microsoft)... A couple of them have left Apple too... It's a slow, but steady movement. :-)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe

    I believe that one should leave those platforms for personal reasons. Not as a statement to those companies.

    I left because I don't like being tracked or being forced to accept being tracked. I did not leave because I wanted them to stop tracking their users or to show them that i don't like them doing it.

    Imo these companies won't change the way they operate and even if they did, I wouldn't trust them to have done so. They will always find loopholes and workarounds to get to what and where they want.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    For me, leaving is a statement, and a personal reason. I don't see how it could not be both? I don't know anyone who trusts them. But shifting the powerbalance towards privacy and ethics, will never be a bad thing.

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