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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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Help Me To Get Rid Of Meta (facebook) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by cosmos_853@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Is There any way to Escape From Meta(facebook) Survilence.

First of All I dont like whatsapp and Asked my contacts to use Signal instead to message me. Some of them did but many didn't because They don't mind their personal data being send to pervy facebook's survilence server. They Say things like "Am I doing Any Crime Then Why Should I Care" and "Only Criminals Will Try To Hide Their Conversation". Its hard to ignore whatsapp as most people will never to make a switch to signal or any other messenger.
Secondly I am tired of telling my friends to stop using Instagram. They are very addicted to it and can't leave its algorithm and slop. I don't use instagram for reels I only use it to communicating with my friends who only DM me reels and posts
Lastly I don't use facebook but many person I know uses it, when I took a look at it I was able surprised to see many unrestricted NSFW content was there under recommendation panel also Saw the same on instagram.

Any Recommended Stratergy To make them ditch Meta ?

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they haven't come to the conclusion that it matters after being presented with information, then they aren't going to change their minds. And you are wasting your breath trying.

Even in our home I'm a privacy advocate (selfhost immich, pihole, Linux machines, GrapheneOS) my wife knows the larger consequence of engaging on platoforms that glean your info, but she lives on Facebook, Instagram, google services etc.

Even a friend who is highly intelligent, doesn't care about privacy; Because he believes he's done nothing wrong so why would he care if the government agencies could gather all info without proper warrants. I had the conversation about the larger issue being that a government is then able to use the info to silence protest against its own actions. He assumes I'm just paranoid.

So I just don't bother further

[–] cosmos_853@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I run linux on my laptop and dont use microslop windows and migrated totaly to selfhosted forgejo and made codeberg as a mirror.Waiting to to buy the required hardware to selfhost nextcloud.