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I realize the FSF itself, being a foundation, isn't the correct answer (been a member for years) but a related for-"profit" outfit, run ethically, seems only a modicum of management talent out of reach.

My point is that the vaccum here is astounding.




The main issue is that privacy and tracking are a death-by-a-thousand-cuts type of problem. Whatsapp may be tracking me, so I'll switch to Signal. But then I have to worry about Twitter and switch to Mastodon. Then I have to worry about a long tail of apps (notetakers, camera apps, flashlights, etc.) and find/build replacements for each of those. And even after I am done with the app-level tracking (if ever done), I still need to worry about OS-level tracking (at least in Android/Google Play Services/...).


Those thousand cuts drain into a data lake. There, even reasonably sane security policies on discrete sites can be substantially mooted by combining a bunch of data from disparate sources.

What to do? Join an Amish community?




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