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@ Fr. Josh Miller
2024-07-09 18:45:49
Again: victory only comes one way here.
Reject the false "utility over privacy" dilemma, and start making privacy tools that are useful, and meet the definition of a good tool in general. If an app or an OS or a device or a hammer "gets out of the way," it will be easier for people to adopt, and the incentives to stay with iOS, or Google, or the privacy infringers, disappears.
I used to watch a weekly Linux show, which highlighted various developments in the operating system. It was a great show. It was also produced on a Mac, on Final Cut, because Linux had nothing that came close to the utility of this tool at that time.
If "privacy" means using bad tools, people won't use them. I won't use them either, because I no longer have time to spend on tools.
Thankfully, this is not what privacy *has* to mean. We can build good tools that are also privacy-preserving. There doesn't have to be a tradeoff.