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tellling a normie to quit using spyware.... might as well call his mother a whore while at it.
Skill issue. If you can't fix this, how will you ever fix that?
See part 1: https://lemmy.world/post/35312231
They have to come around it themselves.
I just plant seed, they come back once they are ready to have the adult discussion.
it took years to move my friends into privacy focused product. with each new fiasco one or two would reach out.
This is the way. Make a post. It would help a lot of people.
Do you really think it is feasible to convert people to less convenient alternative? What are you going to do, force them at a gunpoint?
I've already done it and I never needed force.
An app is never convenient when we do not control it.