Everyone here seems to be paid to say how bad tracking is, then on other thread you see people say they love Apple, windows 10, gmail reading their email.
I vote my government and they do what I ask for (this democracy after all) and I think payment tracking is a good thing especially for tax-evasion.
Nobody votes for those corporations and still there's people that love to have their privacy violated.
(I'm not putting too much effort in these comments because HN is a big bubble where tracking is bad, encryption is good and the same people advocating for privacy use proprietary software meh...)
Using a specific company's technology is a choice. Participating in government is not. I'll always take a company I choose to track me over a government that does it by default.
Using a specific company's Technology, in today's socially networked world, is a choice that you impose onto your friends, family and fellow citizens.
I send you an email to your Gmail account, Google reads it. You choose to use Apple products, companies are forced to comply to Apple's unilateral and unaccountable app store policies, likely dropping other distribution platforms or 3.5mm audio jacks in the process. You give critical mass to the payment system of your choice, businesses and governments drop the ones they don't like or need anymore.
Your choice is not just your own, it's a choice that you make for all the rest of us as well. I have no say over what options I get deprived of because of other people's choices. That's why we have government, because as a society we need a way to prevent you from screwing over the rest of us following your poor choices that give power to companies that use it to my detriment.
If your choice only affects you, do whatever you want. If it affects all of us, let all of us decide on it together.
If I choose to use an email system that you don't like, you don't have to participate. Participation is non-compulsory. You can refuse to reply to my emails. You can refuse to send to services you don't trust. You can choose to use one payment broker or another.
