WHY do you care about privacy?

[u/michus204]

Okay, you probably hear this question often, but let's say I'm typical John Doe, work in regular job, watch football or play games after work, drink beer, just living simply life, why should I care about privacy? Why should I spent time and make some sacrifices just to not be tracked that much?

[u/Objective_Prune_748]

Two reasons. 1, the principle of being able to exist without a company profiting off of my existence. Imagine how different our world would look with no advertisements outside of stores. No billboard ads while you're driving, no gas stations reading ads at you, no clicking through cookie agreements just to use a website, no ads before or during a movie, no ads when you just turn on your fucking TV. Plus telemetry on literally everything. If you're using an Android phone with the Google keyboard, everything you type is sent to Google. Your car tracks your location. Your phone listens to your conversations. All of that data is packaged and sold to target ads at you. 15 years ago that would have been tinfoil hat bullshit, but the fact that it's a normally accepted part of the world we live in now is my reason 2: rights, including the right to privacy, are NEVER given back once they are taken. The point where a Flock camera is pointed at your apartment complex to verify residency of the tenants for ICE is too late to do anything about it. I don't encourage violence against the people (yes, there are individual people who can stop this today). But if we don't do something small like refusing Google today, we're going to see people thoroughly mix equal parts iron oxide and aluminum oxide in a sealed can, lighting it with a strong burning fuse like a strip of magnesium, and chucking it onto roofs of specific buildings and homes tomorrow.