It wasn’t my answer, but I’ll play the part.

I agree with you in cases where individual change is hard, costly and has barely any influence on the big picture (like your “individual CO2 footprint”). But in this case the individual solution is to quit using a terrible browser and install a free extension in the new one, and it has all the impact it needs because it makes the problem go away. I can’t take anybody seriously who will willingly put themselves through youtube ads when they are this easily avoided.

The problem stays the same, why should the answer change?

The reason is rich people.

I’m using Waterfox on Android since the “privacy friendly ad” thing in FF.

Narrator’s voice: They didn’t.

You can pay 6€ for shipping today or help amazon finally become the monopolist, and then tomorrow your batteries will just cost 10€.

Another way is to ask at the next electronics store as I’m sure they can order them with their next routine shipment.

I don’t know about other countries, but the german e-ID for example is more sophisticated than that. It can actually limit access to the information that is necessary for the given application (your terminal or app shows you what specific information is requested before you confirm via PIN). So it can just return “yes/no” to the question “is this person an adult?” Almost no company uses it, likely because they can’t steal data that way.

One of the most rebellious, authority hating teens from my class ended up a police officer and spewing the usual “cops are always right, obey, don’t resist” bullshit.

Dönertier

Planned economy is not a defining feature of communism, nor is it exclusive to it.

governed by it’s native Population

It’s governed by the CCP that violently suppresses all dissent.

with a public policy centered on general social welfare.

I’m sure the people living in huts they just bulldoze to build highways will agree.

Communism would be a classless society free from rulers. I see neither condition fulfilled.

An important defining feature is ownership of the means of production by the workers (not the authoritarian single party government that claims to speak for them and tolerates no dissent). There literally can be no billionaire company owner under communism.

Any data that anybody collects of you today, they will keep. You might not be doing anything illegal today, but you have no way of knowing what will be declared illegal tomorrow, or by the next government, or the one after that, or if those will honor the principle of not punishing you for past breaches of new laws retroactively.

People in 1930 Germany did not know it would soon be illegal to have a relationship with a jew, or to talk negatively about Hitler. People in the 2024 USA didn’t think they would soon be in danger for filming ICE raids, or tracking their movements in chat groups.

Another argument is that your data that advertisers or the government collect doesn’t necessarily stay with them. Car manufacturers were shown ( article in German ) to have location tracking data of their customers’ vehicles on virtually unprotected servers facing the internet. Researchers were able to deduct from this data alone who worked for e.g. secret services, who likely cheated on their wife, where their kids went to school and so on. What do you think a malicious actor could do with information clearly showing at which times in a week your house is likely to be empty?

Information about you and your family and social contacts and chats can also be used to better scam you by impersonating somebody you know. “Hey dad, it’s X, got a new number. Can you transfer me some money till next week maybe?” Many people fall for that.

There are also other ways in which data can be used against you without anything strictly illegal happening. Do you really want your car insurance to have data about your driving habits?

Do you want your health insurance to know how often you order pizza? Both might get the idea to increase your payments for that in the future.

Would you want possible future employers to know you have a chronic disease that might mean you’ll call in sick more often than others?

Last but not least, have you never said or done anything really embarrassing that you’d just prefer nobody to know?

They are reachable though.

And then people are afraid of Vitamin C (“Ascorbic Acid”).

Fuck you Jeff.

Rolling back, sometimes because of file system corruption (had damaged RAM). Shouldn’t restoring be similar as long as the snapshot is intact?

I’ve done that a few times now without issue. What’s wrong with it?