Somewhat related: Privacy is Power - Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Véliz
https://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Power-Should-Take-Control-ebo...
Why Privacy Matters
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#12I do not understand what this article is trying to communicate. It starts with a rambling anecdote and ends with a list of some unrelated terms barely tangential to privacy.
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#13When I discuss privacy with a friend who doesn't share the same liberalism as me (Chinese, make of that what you will), I often have to point out that it's easy to forget that the spooks will get into bed with political conspiracy - Watergate, COINTELPRO for example. There are very few checks and balances in the US, and arguable none in the UK (You can at least put the US Constitution on your pocket)
"I have nothing to hide" should be considered equal to "I have nothing to say, therefore I have nothing to say"
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#14With the existence of shadow profiles, is ideal privacy even possible unless you live in a remote area with a tech averse population? What about the census? The data you provide to the gov is also very sensitive and has a history of being abused (see the role of the US Census Bureau in Japanese Internment Camps). However if you don’t provide it, it affects gov funding for your demographic. What about the computer in your pocket? Most of it isn’t open source
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ironing? Are we going to see the same comment on every article about privacy?
If you are writing about the importance of privacy, you might consider what you are doing about it yourself if you want to be taken seriously. It is 2020, setting up a website that doesn't send off the data of your trusting visitors to third parties should be totally standard. Yet not even people advocating for privacy can get this done. BTW. one benefit of not collecting and tracking is that you won't have to show t…
Oh I'm well aware and I wish I didn't have to show the banner. If you know an alternative with which I could build that website, that doesn't force me to use cookies on users, I'm all ears
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#16... published on a site that accesses 7 different top-level domains. And that's even before allowing any javascript to run. Oh the ironing.
Yes, that's something I'd love to do differently. The problem is I don't have the technical skills to build that website myself. As I said in the cookie banner, I disabled all the trackers I could. Unfortunately, Squarespace doesn't let its customers disable all of them, which is extremely annoying.
I would have a look at GitHub pages, for a static site it's really all you need (blog, right?)
I haven't actually used it for anything yet but I have a script that turns LaTeX into nice looking HTML pages, saves messing around with the CSS for hours.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ironing? Are we going to see the same comment on every article about privacy?
If you are writing about the importance of privacy, you might consider what you are doing about it yourself if you want to be taken seriously. It is 2020, setting up a website that doesn't send off the data of your trusting visitors to third parties should be totally standard. Yet not even people advocating for privacy can get this done. BTW. one benefit of not collecting and tracking is that you won't have to show t…
Yeah that's a great theorical piece of advice. But here's the thing. In 2020 if you don't wanna self-host your website and have a resilient and flexible website, you don't have other options than squarespace/wix and other platforms using cookies.
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#18... published on a site that accesses 7 different top-level domains. And that's even before allowing any javascript to run. Oh the ironing.
uBlock says 9 domains, and the article starts with a "trigger warning". Hard pass.
> trigger warning
I dislike them, but I have met people who genuinely do not want to think about bad things. I can accept the viewpoint, but these are the people that turn a blind eye during genocides. If you really can't handle discussing topics like these I don't mind a warning, at least rather than self-censoring.
However, I'm reminded of the fuss that was made over the term "Joyplot" due to the term Joy Division - ignoring that band is named after the historical term as an artistic statement, it just seems like pandering into the void.
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#19I do not understand what this article is trying to communicate. It starts with a rambling anecdote and ends with a list of some unrelated terms barely tangential to privacy.
I see a lot of non-technical people around me who don't get the importance of privacy. Family who buys Alexa and use Facebook for everything. I wrote this in an attempt to explain how far privacy breaches can get, how the implications can be. Then, I tried defining some security terms that non-technical people might run into. Security helps protect their privacy, so I hope to help them make sense of what those terms mean and how they benefit from them.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that's something I'd love to do differently. The problem is I don't have the technical skills to build that website myself. As I said in the cookie banner, I disabled all the trackers I could. Unfortunately, Squarespace doesn't let its customers disable all of them, which is extremely annoying.
You may wish to give Wordpress a look. It's infamously easy to install, and will happily run on a $5/month digitalocean VM. Installing a caching addon (one or two clicks from the store) will make a site that can survive being linked to directly on HN. Last I knew Squarespace had an export option, so you might be able to just bring all your content over without much hassle.
Unfortunately WordPress is a pain in the butt to maintain, every plugin and even the core is a security liability if you don't auto update everything (which is likely to randomly wreck your blog someday) and Wordpress's default configuration (with its XMLRPC API) is far from perfect.