Will people start caring for their privacy if most of the links posted were tracking free?
The reason I am asking is because despite the amount of posts I posted and all the ways that I advocated for getting news from tracking free websites/ non-profits, people don’t seem to change.
I still see people posting links from people, the independent, CBS, Vox Media and other evil companies still being posted.
Will people on the long-term change or is it a lost cause?
You have to decide for yourself whether your efforts are worth it despite no visible effect. You don’t know whether your content may have affected one reader (or many more) who simply didn’t say anything.
I’ll personally never stop notifying people of tracker-free URLs, for example. The way I look at it is: I don’t care if they actually change or not. What I care about is that I ensure they are without excuse if they don’t change, because I served as the messenger and they heard the word, even if they reject it.
So at least I will have done my part, so no one can put it back on me and say I didn’t try. Putting the ball in their court is what matters; why would you change your behavior because of what others do/don’t do? That’d be one flimsy philosophy, right?
My family members had that same attitude of “you are not going to change the world on your own”. Which to I responded “well yes, but it is the same reason why I do not litter streets”
Hmm, seems to me the more reasonable ask would be for people to play solid general defense rather than to cut out specific “evil companies”. Use a decent piece of anti-tracking software. Be thoughtful about what data they give out when signing up for services.
Versus telling people to avoid CBS, which likely comes off a wee bit conspiracy-sounding to the layman.
One problem I see in your way of thought here, adblock use among social media users will never reach 100%.
Furthermore, adblockers are getting weaker with Google Chrome MV3. All of this leads to the logical conclusion in my eyes that you can only change the sources that power users use which will eventually lead to better privacy for all people involved. You will never be able to control people setups to be super private.
Not gonna get people to stop watching CBS either.
keep fighting the good fight. it’s worth it.
i’ve had more friends ask me about lemmy and peertube bc of stuff i share, which is good because that means they’re noticing. no one in my friend group is “into privacy”, but sometimes i like to ask them questions like “what will it take for you to switch from (big tech service) to something else?” & let the discussion flow from there.
since they aren’t “into privacy”, they’re not aware of how their habits feed the big tech beast, which in turn feeds all these terrible agendas. an example is how they’re against the ICE raids and say things like ACAB, yet they use Ring cameras.
recently, i’ve had a few friends ask me for alternatives to (big tech service), and one of them even asking for help degoogling!
it definitely gets hard when you feel like your advocacy has fallen on deaf ears or whatever, but all we can do is lead by example. stay the course <3
