To me it’s a fallacy that even a highly skilled and knowledgeable person could set their own privacy settings to what they’d actually like. When you have huge forces arrayed against you, an powerful advocate is necessary.
> To me it’s a fallacy that even a highly skilled and knowledgeable person could set their own privacy settings to what they’d actually like.
Do you mean on a phone or on any computing device? I'm pretty confident that I've set the privacy settings to my liking on my GNU/Linux laptop. (Well, with the giant exception of tracking by websites, but I think that uBlock+uMatrix on Firefox still deal with that slightly better than Safari's blocking.) You could argue that in this case Debian (or the like) is my powerful advocate, but it's a powerful advocate who doesn't take away control of my device.
