How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing
How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing
Good article. These things are definitely true in the stage of big tech and normie tech, however I'm so glad that the baseline for a large portion of us still hasn't shifted, and in some respects, has actually shifted in reverse, to become better over time
For example, open source wasn't really a thing in the 90s and early 2000s to the scale that it is today. Companies could generally be trusted to not be literal active spyware.
But today, more than ever, soooo much software and code is totally open and you can build and compile it all yourself. You can now run your entire tech life on code that you build, compile, verify, and sign by yourself. You could not do that in the "good old days".
open source wasn’t really a thing in the 90s and early 2000s
Truly written as someone who wasn't alive back then and just makes stuff up.
Open-source - which was called free software back then - was very much alive and totally a thing since forever, and especially in the 70s, 80s and 90s. I learned all I know with free software in the 80s. Linux came out in 91 and was a pure product of open source: Minix - the forerunner of Linux - was a fully open-source OS created in 87, and GNU had been around since 83.
Please read up on things you don't know before posting nonsense.
I've been an internet user since 1994, and I can tell you this. Unnecessary hostility like this has always a thing from the very beginning. Even if the OP made a mistake, not saying that he did, why be a dick about it? Just add to the information pile.
That's my PSA.