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submitted 8 months ago by tkk13909@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

What's your take on his points? I wholeheartedly disagree with him but I don't know how to properly voice why. I wanna hear what you guys have to say.

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[-] forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

That isn't unpopular opinion unfortunately. Otherwise the world wouldn't the way that it is right now. We live in a surveillance apparatus that shapes our behavior. Nobody really cares except for the fringes of society.

If you poll people if they care about their privacy of course they will say yes. That is a rather superficial question. When you start polling in meaningful manner such as the uses of personal data the more the opinions become mixed. Some people really do think tracking and ads can provide them useful services. Such a rapacious form of capitalism is the prevailing mode of our time.

I think to some people the concepts of behavioral modification is too sci-fi to be believable. The topic sounds too much like ramblings of a conspiracy nutter about mind control. For others probably they think they're smarter than psychological conditioning.

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