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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live (uk.pcmag.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by iloveyou@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This is unacceptable. And I’m sick of all the fucking workarounds to maintain basic privacy.

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[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Its like the first thing in my post "this will cause discomfort"

I didn't say it was going to be easy at all, its going to be hard, but with some conviction in the values / morals informing your reason for protest its actually easy after that initial week is over.

Edit: its also infinitely easier to enact change like this in your own life than to smash a grand slam with a "government takeover.". Not saying that wouldn't be great, but let's start with the things we have control over.

Also, you can just do both; vote and boycott...