I'm talking about AMP vs the news articles and cooking recipes I try to read that get intercepted by AMP.
Google already tracks everything I do and resells my behavior. That is literally their entire business model.
The NSA puts backdoors in hardware modules you can't remove, finds flaws in firmware, cracks crypto, and exploits mobile devices that can't or won't be updated. And HTTPS simply isn't necessary for 90% of the use cases its champions claim.
I've switched my default search engine, changed browsers, unloaded most of my free hosted services to paid ones, and am paying for a newspaper subscription. I am saving money in the process by cutting unnecessary expenditures to pay for these things. I didn't have to get used to it and life is better.
Putting a backdoor in hardware modules is a way more expensive threat model than the low hanging fruit of observing or modifying your network traffic. So your argument is, since the most elaborate state level actor in the world can bypass pretty much any protection you come up with if they focus on you, you should therefore ignore all of the other threats out there?
And by getting used to it, I was referring to the complexity of the whole technology stack, and the sheer amount of defense of depth that has been added to it. You obviously didn't get used to it, because you're complaining about it and ranting about "technology", social media, and many other things, in your top level post.
But if you disconnected from all of this stuff and achieved a zen-like state of nirvana, then "Likes" or proliferation of tech stacks that other people like to create and use shouldn't bother you.
When someone lists a whole bunch of stuff they hate, but then state they've gone cold turkey and freed themselves from it, but still go on an epic unprovoked rant complaining, it sounds to me like someone saying "Get off my lawn and stop playing rap music".
I despise selfies and hate people taking food pictures when I'm eating with them, but it's pretty much the the world is now. That's what I meant by "get used to it", there's no point ranting about it anymore.
> But if you disconnected from all of this stuff and achieved a zen-like state of nirvana, then "Likes" or proliferation of tech stacks that other people like to create and use shouldn't bother you.
I didn't achieve zen. My life is better, but all the other shit still bothers the hell out of me.
Complaining has a long and successful history. Our entire democratic process is based on complaining. Complaining and throwing tea in a harbor. Just because I threw my tea in the harbor doesn't mean the tea isn't still getting taxed, or that my responsibility to speak out goes away. Granted, my form of whining and moaning was more "kids on my lawn" than "taxation without representation", but hopefully people can see the point is that this is all unnecessarily burdensome.
Google already tracks everything I do and resells my behavior. That is literally their entire business model.
The NSA puts backdoors in hardware modules you can't remove, finds flaws in firmware, cracks crypto, and exploits mobile devices that can't or won't be updated. And HTTPS simply isn't necessary for 90% of the use cases its champions claim.
I've switched my default search engine, changed browsers, unloaded most of my free hosted services to paid ones, and am paying for a newspaper subscription. I am saving money in the process by cutting unnecessary expenditures to pay for these things. I didn't have to get used to it and life is better.