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   Sarah Jamie Lewis (sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 02:47:01 JST Sarah Jamie Lewis

   Whether we are discussing recall / client side scanning / "privacy preserving" advertisement/analytics/metrics or any of the other plentiful attacks on end-user control:

   There is no sound threat model that applies past the point where the operating system / web browser / messaging app / "user agent" is generally considered to be actively hostile to the the person it ostensibly takes direction from.

   • Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Sarah Jamie Lewis (sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 02:47:20 JST Sarah Jamie Lewis

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     Your one practical option is to actively reject tools that now exist to serve interests other than your own - and to help others do the same; and in doing so support the people who make the tools that put you back in control.

     Are there solutions for everything? No - but if we don't start investing in them, and building them, and making them better today then we simply won't have them at all.

     Because no tool, no organization, that sells out its users is ever going to stop.