I have always been curious about this. Did you get them to use other services or did they stubbornly refuse and you just accepted it? I am talking using Chrome, using Windows, using social media like Tiktok or Facebook or Instagram, etc. Bonus points if you have kids because that is even more work in the privacy realm
I don’t try and push my weird opinions on my wife lmao. She knows how I feel and understands and does what she wants and that’s okay. My advice is to communicate and respect each other even if you don’t agree and don’t be a controlling dork.
I got my SO to use a password manager.
She got sick of pihole and my firewall blocking her Facebook memes, so she has her own segregated WiFi network, then she’s less of an attack vector for me.
Aslong as she uses 2fa on her main accounts and has a password manager I’m happier than most.
weird opinions?
on the contrary, I think it’s a weird opinion to think that uploading personal photos and videos on surveillance capitalisme hubs is no big deal. It’s a weird opinion to think that you’ve got nothing to hide from perverted companies and states.
I think you missed the point.
no, I see your point but you could have wrote: I don’t try and push my opinions
you wrote “weird opinions” and in the context of this thread (see the op 👆), what do you think “my weird opinions” means?
From the perspective of our partners, privacy is often a “weird opinion”. If you can’t accept that it is a fringe area of interest in society then you are almost certainly isolated or living in a bubble.
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can I… hear her argument? I just wanna know what fallacy has concocted here lol. not trying to be insulting to your wifi or anything, just bantering a little bit, I’ve come across some that believe adblocking is piracy though, and I’m curious.
Some people like targeted advertising because they enjoy being shown things that are potentially relevant to their interests.
My wife sends me products she finds interesting and they all contain the facebook tracker at the end. It is a scientific fact that women are better consumers, hence ads are mostly created for them. My wife hates ads while watching videos, but taps on them during scrolling all the time. Fortunately I haven’t been asked to get her off pi-hole. It is tricky with ads, as you think that they are offering a solution for something, but in many cases they are establishing a desire you did not have before.
that’s crazy to me idk. merely seeing an ad annoys me enough to stop whatever I was doing. my inner contrarian avoids any product I’ve seen advertised.
It annoys me as well and I rather not visit any website that refuses my visit because of my adblocker. However, ads work with your unconscious and unfortunately, they work on everyone, that’s why the best is to avoid them.
Part of relationships is accepting people. They behave the way they do because they have values and preferences and don’t always align with ours. Respect that. Make your case, but respect that they may not come to the same conclusions you do.
Got the wife a grapheneOS pixel, she likes it and the adblock as well. But can’t let go of Facebook , Spotify ,WhatsApp etc. Small steps
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You can but there’s a point where the SO’s actions actively invade your privacy too against your will.
Real example: My SO uploads all her photos to Google Photos. Because I also appear on those Photos, I am now being tracked/used for training ML models/instrumentalised/whatever other evil things Google does nowadays against my will.
Google doesn’t care whether I consented to that or not.
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You should become vegan if you care about the future.
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if your hair was “falling out” just because you tried to have a vegan diet, either you were doing something really wrong or something’s wrong with your body. Did you see a doctor or a nutritionist?
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i’m sorry to read that.
I had a friend who had to go back to eating meat after +20 years of vegetarianism because of health problems like yours. It wasn’t a joy for him as it was an ethical choice.
good luck
I make the private option easier than the locked in version.
Homeassistant will let us see our locations, run lights, run media centers, control AC, etc. So why do you need Google Home or Google Maps Location Sharing?
Signal will let us chat over WIFI unlike texts, and I will answer it unlike a Google chat account. Before the SMS death it was easier since it did SMS and signal in one app, easier to convince someone if it can replace the old one and add new features.
I configure two SSIDs, one for things I trust and one for those I don’t. I can run firewall rules and add security on the backend where they can’t see it.
Tiktok you can run a campaign against it by saying it damages cognition, is harmful to youth, supports the CCP.
You can run a pi hole style filter list,ehich might break some stuff so you have to be willing to play tech support.
I don’t know anything about kids but it couldn’t hurt to teach them some simple skills like html so they get a taste for what’s happening behind the scenes.
Signal removing SMS support was the final straw that made me stop recommending it to friends. I had 100% of my contacts on Signal before that, and very few have left, but my new friends all use Instagram/Kakao/whatever.
I know that wasn’t very related to your comment, but UGGHHH
I’m annoying my girlfriend by installing a dns ad blocker that sometimes interferes with her work, and I have to whitelist things when her work links doesn’t work (Microsoft stuff).
It’s a bit of an annoyance but I feel strongly about not letting these companies get data about what we are doing.
Just yesterday I installed a kodi plugin (called “up next” ), and turns out it’s reporting back what shows I’m watching! The only reason I became aware of this is because it was blocked by the dns ad blocker.
I care about my apps not calling home and reporting what im doing. It should be illegal.
setting home network to fwd all dns through paid nextdns, beyond that just fighting a war of attrition
