Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?

Post by jitbit » Sat, Jun 17, 2017, 4:41 PM UTC

sam_goody wrote: post #359

Use Firefox. Develop on Firefox, and then adjust for Chrome if needed. Encourage friends to use FF. Google tracks every domain you visit and how long you visit it even with all the adblockers in the world (under the pretext that you might be searching for the domain instead of going there). You have no idea how much data they are collecting on every minute of your use (the local license in my non-U.S. version has som…

Post by thatwebdude » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 2:18 PM UTC

sumeno wrote: post #354

piaste wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it more complicated than buying and owning a car? A house? More complicated than filing your taxes, managing retirement savings, having a wedding, choosing insurance? Learning the basics of something new, enough to get by, is part of being an adult, even if you won't ever be and have no interest in being an expert.

Given the number of bad financial decisions people make because they don't really understand those things I'm not sure that those comparisons are helping your case, but even so, for a lot of people it IS more complicated than those things because they are afraid of technology in a way that they aren't afraid of tangible things. Solving 99% of technical problems requires nothing more than Google and following instruct…