the fucking ads. they spooked me as hell.
Windows 10
Big tech made me do it. I wish it were the standard procedure.
Tech -> Raspberry Pi -> Linux -> New PC -> Mining Crypto -> Monero -> Privacy
Crypto lol
Holy shit whats up with all these guys hating here on cryptos? As if all of them would be the same. Sure better go to daddy bank…
NFTs and (x)coin speculation really made a lot of people sour on cryptocurrency, fairly or unfairly.
There are legitimate uses for crypto, I don’t think Mastercard, Visa, or your bank need to know what size dildos you’re buying online. But people treating it like a high value stock instead of actual currency really hampered it’s wide adoption imo.
You are so right about this… Unfortunately…
I use monero for this reason. It has actual usage as a currency and maintains a fairly stable value. Sure, it fluctuates, but it does so rather slowly compared to others. It doesnt drop 15+% overnight.
To be clear: I also hate crypto EXCEPT MONERO.
When I got a new PC it had (and still has) quite powerfull cpu, so I googled if I could make some money from my PC. The answer was crypto mining. Only nice looking crypto miner for Linux was Cudo miner and it only supported Monero for cpu mining. I was mining for a year and got 50€, because of free electricity (parents). In that time I discovered that Monero is private and anonymous crypto and then I got interested in privacy. I was also a localmonero trader but paypal close both of my accounts without a reason :(.
Nice story. There are a lot more cryptos and blockchains that aim to disrupt the current centralized systems. It is rather easy to distinguish between real cypherpunk rooted projects and other useless shitcoins.
Data breaches and just in general, what every company seemingly knows about me even if I never used their products, and how much reach those companies have on you that’s just plain inescapable like health insurance and banks?
Do I really care that Banana Co knows I like bananas? No. Do I care that my health insurance could deny a claim based on what I purchase at the grocery store? Absolutely. Companies use that data to serve their interests first. Especially when it comes to endangered rights like LGBTQ+, people of color and abortion rights, it makes it easy to feed all that data in an opaque AI black box and discriminate against you, with no way to prove it and no legal recourse.
Especially true with for example, Jews during Nazi germany, or right now anti-war russians in Russia. Lack of privacy can be plain dangerous.
PRISM, the American empire mass espionage program
I hate ads.
because i hate injustice, and one day figured that surveillance enables imbalance of power, therefore injustice.
Advertisements and how media tends to treats people like they’re stupid
Performance boost. Ads take up bandwidth and I wanted faster shit. I use a pihole bc it’s like a real wifi booster. Who cares about ads?
I started trying to replace closed source apps with open source apps because I liked Godot more than Unity and it was open source and decided to change everything to a Foss alternative
Snowden
I was actually praising Google for some reason when I was still in elementary school. I discovered Firefox, uBlock Origin and other stuff then got into privacy at the age of 14.
I was originally just against censorship. I turned to DDG instead of Google because I wanted more open and free search results. That’s where it all started.
My IT teacher from high school put a major emphasis on online privacy.
He thinks the internet is a major threat to individual freedom and while it brings benefits, the negative effects are too big for him.
While I don’t agree with the last statement, I do think privacy is very much under attack nowadays and while I am not very concerned what other people and corporations know about me, I still care about privacy simply because I have the right to do so and because if I don’t pay attention, a dozen different trackers will know what I have done without me granting permission.
Corporations basically take advantage of people and give nothing in return and that is bad imo.
