I use ProtonMail, and I was thinking, “Damn, it’s spectacular not being tracked… but hold on a minute. Perhaps less than gmail, but still at all. And what about browser fingerprinting, and cookies, and even fonts!” I ended up in that feedback loop we all end up in. Perhaps ignorance is bliss? What is something you (might) wish you were ignorant of?
Sometimes I’m stressed and wish I was a complete vegetable. Other than that, I pretty much always want to know things. Especially scary things like you’re talking about, because reality always collects sooner or later.
It was never my wish but I lived my life outside of the media and ended up there naturally. It’s really quite blissful.
No
I’ve been searching for knowledge my entire life, and I love sharing what I have learned. Helping others with whatever struggles they may have gives me more pleasure than doing the same thing for myself. I don’t care if it is helping fix computers, doing math, physics or chemistry homework, helping replace a chip on a broken electronics component, or basically whatever you may think of. I’ve been around the block once or twice - I spent basically all my free time over the past 25 years nerding over anything and everything.
I would hate to be ignorant and lose the capability of helping others or myself.
I don’t wish for ignorance, just optimism. Like I worry about things but I just like to reach out to you guys and see you reaches back
Google has too much power and control. Even if I don’t have power and control of all my data, someone else having that power instead of Google is still preferable to leaving it all in their hands.
Break it up into many small pieces that do not like eachother.
Hang on I have a meme for this.
I don’t wish for ignorance, but sometimes I do watch wild creatures and think, “What a life. Find food, find shelter, find partner, lay eggs/babies. Pure biology in control.” Some deep part of me is massively jealous that I can’t give in to what my ancient genes want me to do. Being able to fulfill my basic needs is subject to the whims of capitalism.
Though not having to tolerate parasites and disease without medicine, not having to die right after mating, and having access to modern air conditioning are pretty strong perks of being a human.
I definitely see your thinking. But for me the ability to understand complex ideas such as society and language is way to big of a trade off to be worth becoming any other animal.
Ignorance is bliss until it isn’t. At which you’ll be completely unprepared to deal with the problems you’ve been pretending don’t exist.
Always cut the cards and smile when you lose.
Or
Forewarned is forearmed.
I don’t have to wish, my friend.
Bad things don’t disappear if you can’t percieve them, so no.
If you can’t perceive bad things, they won’t affect your mental health. Sounds a lot easier than perceiving bad things all the time and not being able to do anything about them.
I often think about how much happier I might be if I never read the news. No more worrying about where the world is going, just blissful ignorance. I just can’t bring myself to do it, I feel like I have to watch the slow motion car crash.
Understanding the world is the first step to fixing it.
That’s true, but as an individual, I can’t fix anything. I can be a tiny part of a greater movement, but whether such a movement will form is completely beyond my control. So is whether or not that movement would succeed. Of course, some people become more than mere passengers to global events, but that seems far beyond me at this point. The best I can hope to do is make a tiny difference within my community.
Sure, but you can also join an org, and make a difference that way at a larger scale.
Fair, there is actually one local to me I’ve been looking into. I’m not sure what use I can be but I should at least try.
Go for it!
There’s no perfect privacy. Just understanding your threat level. Minimizing the surface area of data collected on you is always a good thing. Just gotta discover what points matter the most to you.
Life is hard whether you’re ignorant or not, whether you’re kind or not. There’s no way to make life simple or always comfortable. So I think you’re better off choosing to be not ignorant, and to be kind.
I like your take, I think most of the “advantages” of beign ignorant come from the increased damage we’d cause to others, directly or indirectly, without mental ripercussion; so ultimately we’d all just suffer way more.
I get that POV, but ultimately, water finds its own level. There is always going to be so much out of your control. It’s like “play the hand you’re dealt”. In a poker game, you don’t get to decide your hand. You can only play it as well as you can.
I don’t know
Not an answer to your question, but…
are you saying I need to be worried about fonts spying on me now? Like typeface?
They used to use your list of installed fonts as one of the data types to figure out who you are.
I’m not sure if that’s still a thing, how many people download new fonts now, but it was an important part of fingerprinting at one point.
What others said. Additionally Google offers free fonts to embed in websites that allow Google to know when you visit any site that uses one.
One of the ways of fingerprinting that they use is to determine what fonts you have loaded onto your browser and it’s surprisingly effective. I think before I changed mine to all default my fonts were unique to like 1:10000 people which once you factor in other fingerprinting techniques can make you pretty obvious
are you saying I need to be worried
you’re probably fine
