- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
“You are not the customer, you are the abandoned carcass. The real customer is the market that trades in your future behaviour.” - Shoshana Zuboff
Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism has been on my list for a long time - finally diving in. It’s unsettling, brilliant, and painfully relevant. I wrote a short piece distilling her core message and what it means for digital freedom today.
We have to fight back and promote foss services.
What foss services? Who’s going to pay to run it. There is a reason we have ads no one actually wants to cover the cost of running these platforms.