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    9 months ago

    Reminds me of the Bill Hicks bit about marketing and advertising. “Oh he’s going for that anti-marketing dollar, that’s a great market!”

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      9 months ago

      Yeah I suppose in this game you only get to choose your side, but the option to not play at all is not left open to you.

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        9 months ago

        Or, you can choose not to play but that basically means rejecting society. That price is too high for 99%+ of people. Some of us try to partially abstain with privacy tools.

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          You would have to not have an address, phone, or use the internet, nor travel along a roadway that has billboards (even the Amish are not immune!), so yeah, wherever you are they will track you down, basically.:-( Which is on them, while what we choose to do about it is on us:-).

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            9 months ago

            Yeah you’d have to be an off-grid mountain man, basically. That’s why so few do it, but some do!

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              Hrm… come to think of it, there are some people who would want to have a list of off-grid mountain men (hunters of potential immortal vampires? or perhaps to ensure that such people have their… ahem “votes” properly counted?), so even then there surely is a list, or rather a few thousand lists, of such people? Perhaps all people who have not bought anything for the last 5 years but for where an obituary has not yet recorded their deaths?

              (Unfortunately) where there is a will, there is a way!

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                Ugh, you’re right. They may not be able to find you to sell you shit, but they can still piece together the you-shaped hole you left behind.

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                  9 months ago

                  Bold thought: occasionally visit a website with privacy trackers off? Confuse the fuck out of them too with conflicting input. :-P Don’t just protect yourself, protect others by corrupting their databases:-D. Don’t just resist culture, counter it! Tbh I don’t really care enough to do any of this, but it is fun to think about:-). They can try to characterize me all they want, but meanwhile… uh actually I want & struggle to try to do that too, so I can say good luck with that task MFers! ;-)