There’s always been a compromise between security/privacy and convenience. The more convenient you make something, the more people who’ll accept that compromise. Combine that with ignorance of privacy concerns, active persuasion that privacy concerns are out of fashion (if you’ve got nothing to hide…), and a effective cartel of non-privacy respecting options, and, well, here we are.
I mean, the norm anymore is that “the internet” means Facebook, Amazon Google, Reddit, and Twitter. If you’re using an alternative to one of those, it’s not uncommon that the assumption is that it’s because you got kicked off the big corporate sites for being an undesirable.
Jeez, how did we get to a point where distributing just straight-up spyware became normal?
the joys of the internet getting commercialized
That is an interesting question I am far to suggest such a sharp reason.
There’s always been a compromise between security/privacy and convenience. The more convenient you make something, the more people who’ll accept that compromise. Combine that with ignorance of privacy concerns, active persuasion that privacy concerns are out of fashion (if you’ve got nothing to hide…), and a effective cartel of non-privacy respecting options, and, well, here we are.
I mean, the norm anymore is that “the internet” means Facebook, Amazon Google, Reddit, and Twitter. If you’re using an alternative to one of those, it’s not uncommon that the assumption is that it’s because you got kicked off the big corporate sites for being an undesirable.