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Ask HN: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies

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Re: Ask HN: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies

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Do you have a Signal username? I hate dealing with PGP. (That's how I've gotten a lot of folks on Signal: "It's like PGP, but usable." The phone number thing was a hangup for a while but with the usernames feature, that's gone.)

Interesting point. What's hard in PGP? Are you setting up manually or via an app like Thunderbird?

Re: Ask HN: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies

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You are missing out the "which means that ..." step. A basic of sales training is that you take your proposal and then put that at the end. Take the answer and repeat until you run out of sensible answers. What you have is your best proposal.

Privacy is a concept, it's not even a thing.

Re: Ask HN: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies

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post #11
post #6

Do you have a Signal username? I hate dealing with PGP. (That's how I've gotten a lot of folks on Signal: "It's like PGP, but usable." The phone number thing was a hangup for a while but with the usernames feature, that's gone.)

Interesting point. What's hard in PGP? Are you setting up manually or via an app like Thunderbird?

>What's hard in PGP?

WebTV crashed when I tried to Ask Jeeves how many thesises (thesii?) have been written on this subject.

Re: Ask HN: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies

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I think the key is to just make the best service. For the masses, privacy and security aren’t selling points. Make the core product great, and then it happens to also be privacy respecting FOSS. Of all the FOSS software that has made inroads with the masses, none of it has been due to it being FOSS or the privacy. People don’t use VLC because it’s FOSS, they use it because a video file didn’t play in the player they…

spot on, thanks!

Re: Ask HN: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies

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post #12
post #7

Is XMPP considered secure? I use it daily because it's the PM protocol that doesn't require a mobile phone and works with CLI clients.. I use profanity :-P

it could be. How can you convince more people to use it?

By building better clients.
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