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But how do they block google analytics?

You could create one here

You don't think that China spy on their citizens and abuse the rights of their own citizens?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/worldnews/12706390/china-document-8-million-training-detention-camps/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps https://www.theorganicprepper.com/china-is-spying-on-millions-of-people-and-they-arent-in-china/

China are quite brutal when it comes to respecting the rights of their citizens, they spy on their own citizens and anyone not praising their Government is sent to prison or 're-education camps'. Granted we in the West also have intel agencies spying on us

I feel like crypto is a great concept because one the face of it it gives power back to the people by having a decentralsied banking system. Although I feel that the reason that china wants to crack down on it is because they are not able to regulate it as they are worth their own currency so it takes power away from the Government. Also China is known for its totalitarianism.

How is privacy freedom?

Yeah you raise some good points. Its the misuse of data that is quite significant, because a pen can be used to write stuff or be used to stab someone, its how its used that mattars, but that doesn't make the pen a bad thing. Equally giving data to a company isn't bad, but the company can misuse that data to manipulate you in very suttle ways that you are not aware of.

Generally I think that this is the number 1 reason people want to be private because of 'big tech' etc. But I made this post because I felt like there were people following privacy and becoming as private as possible to what end?

However devils advocate here, tech companies like Microsoft and Google do bring an amazing service. To this day there is no other search engine as good as google period. Microsoft and Google both offer amazing email services that just work.

I feel that the long term solution is to decentralise a lot of this stuff out and have it so that we don't need central services like Facebook and google, but have a decentralised internet as it was originally intended to be. That is the reason I enjoy Lemmy so much because its federated and decentralised and open source so we can verify if there are backdoors or if lemmy place hidden trackers in their website we would know, we can also see the bans that lemmy makes on the platform and see if we agree with them or not (i'm sure there are other good things about it, but I haven't spent the time to research all of them). If we can have a decentralised internet with all the services and things like that we would be able to take away power from the elite that don't have our best interests at heart and give power back to the people (democracy) which is also why I enjoy crypto so much because that really is decentralised (alhtough a lot of bitcoin miners are owned by microsoft in USA, so i was told).

My view on the mattar is the person standing at my windows at all times would likely not have good motives for him watching me. Equally people form their own opinions about you regardless of what you hide. You can't control the view they hold of you, so don't bother trying. I feel we've gone a little off topic. But my point is this; its all a question of motives, the reason I would be unconfortable with someone standing at my windows at all times is because I would question his motives for doing so.

I feel like this discussion isn't really going anywhere and we still haven't really answered what your motives of privacy really are, have you even asked that question yourself? Why do you want to be so private? Why is what you are hiding so important to you that you go through so much effort to actually stop people from knowing of it?

Don't get me wrong I used to be really into privacy until I realised that its mostly just a waste of time and an illusion at best, because who and what are you trying to hide? Its just undue paranoia most of the time. Although a really good book on the mattar is Future crimes https://futurecrimesbook.com/ if you want to read.

I hate to break it to you man, but you should tell your feelings to this person. Don't live with the regret of knowing that you could have told her but didn't. Who knows maybe she loves you back ;)

I don't know man.... It kinda sounds like you are doing something suspicious if "only you should have the right to decide what others know about you" because if you are not doing anything malicious and the other person has no malicious intent. Then I don't quite see what the problem is?

With respect that still doesn't really answer the question because it doesn't really say why privacy is "the right to the self". Let be play devils advocate and say that what if nobody had malicious intent with others data. Why would there be any need to be private online?