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Alright /g/, this is a festering problem that's continuing to shit all over this board and at some point some of you NEETs are going to have to grow up and grip day-to-day reality.
Botnet, Windows, Microsoft, Chrome, Google, Apple, Telemetry, Tracker. Do all these words trigger you? They still should, but at some point you need to learn to accept it. There is no such thing as absolute total privacy in the internet, or in the world. Someone somewhere is going to know a little bit about you and where you are, and at some point you'll probably realise that's okay.
You may think you can escape it by installing all these browser plugins, switching to GNU/Linux and only using dumbphones etc. but what about your other day to day activities? If you use a card to withdraw money or pay for things, the bank knows who you are and where and when you did that. Again, the kind of tracking you're looking to avoid by going to these autistic lengths. All defeated by something you need to do to function.
Yes, invasive ad tracking needs to stop. Nothing wrong with believing that, but in the end how are these ads _really_ harming you? Not physically, they're just showing you more relevant things. By searching in ANY search engine someone out there is going to know what you typed in, it's needed for it to function. See the pattern?
Every time you download a package for your "secure" distro, your IP is out there. Even behind a VPN, your VPN provider will know who you are, especially if it's a paid service. This is okay however, if you pick the right one and you trust them.
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(cont.) There seriously is no such thing as total privacy. There is total security, and that is a good thing. Encryption, running linux, sandboxes and VMs etc. good for stuff like your banking to make it as difficult as possible for a bad third party to intercept your shit. But you're human, humans are social creatures. Someone else needs to know what you're requesting for you to receive whatever webpage you're requesting in Neetrunner etc.
In the end, you'll feel a lot happier just doing what you can to avoid breaches of privacy, and not worrying about others especially if you can trust who it's going to and/or don't care about the (usually benign) data being sent. Windows 10 has options, use them. A google account and Android phone has options, use them. I'm not shilling for Googleistan or Pajeetsoft, but I'm just saying this board has a problem and it's time we actually analysed what this "botnet" is all about and what it is for, rather than bitching about it's mere existence. It isn't going away any time soon, just make peace with it and contact it as _least_ as possible, you can't cut contact with it entirely and be comfortable. You would have to have no internet, no smartphone, no bank account and a mask on at all times. No job etc. so that no one knew who you are or what you are doing. We make _fun_ of those kinds of people, don't stoop to their stupid "Hurr i'm in the matrix" level of hacker-faggotry.
Please /g/, get some intelligent discussion going instead of autistic screeching about "muh botnet" when at most times, it's not going to harm you, or there's a choice not to use it right under your nose.
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>>62181778
Jeri Ryan is MY waifu. hands off, fgt.
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This thread is pointless. More than half the people on this board legitimately think they can escape it or live off the grid, while still using the internet. Or any service normal people use to make their lives easier.
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>>62181853
Exactly, but that's also another reason _to_ have this thread in hope that some of these tards will read something for once. This board has just gotten friggin depressing to read, no one cares about technology anymore. It's all about "how can this collect data from me", never anything else. The /retro/ threads are the only place I get any solace from it because it was from a time before all of this, and even then all the OwO posters don't even get to me.
I also keep seeing that tech nirvana / zen meme thread occasionally, I feel this answers it well.
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