RT twitter.com/@t: I am once again asking you to own your notes, rather than tweeting them into Big Chad's garage.
Maybe you left the big garage and now toot in your neighborhood Chad's garage. It's still someone else's garage. https://xkcd.com/1150 #IndieWeb
Maybe ...
https://tantek.com/t5Nd1 https://xkcd.com/1150 https://tantek.com/t5Nd1 https://twitter.com/t/status/1609815929294327808
@jwz the worst thing about XKCD 1150 is that it doesn't hold true anymore even when you pay for it. @pluralistic had a thread about this recently
https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar
@oblomov @jwz @pluralistic
Nails it:
There's something oddly comforting about the idea that "if you're not paying for the product, you're the product," namely, the corollary: "If you can afford to pay for a product, you won't be the product." But it's bullshit. Companies don't make you the product because you don't pay – 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢.
https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar
They don't make you the product.
You volunteer to be the product.
It's not that you can't stop them.
It's that you line up to take part.
@volkris Note I was not stating they do. But yes, even when you explicitly opt out, they frequently _do make you the product_ because they can. You might want to read the piece.
Ignoring the power of monopoly by singing "la la la" to myself is not really giving me any power. (Note we're having this conversation over here, so we're likely both preaching to the choir. In which case, why are we quibbling?)