Comments by "pqsk" (@pqsk) on "honestly, i don't care that facebook tracks me" video.

  1. Ads have been obvious for years and data collection too. Companies like sears had a lot of it, and they did nothing with it which is why they went bankrupt (but that's another tale 😹). The biggest issue I had was when the NSA PRISM program was revealed, and how there were exploits on ads because ads were using un encrypted HTTP in games in social media and websites. It just blew my mind. I did a paper on it how careless the government was and the cost to the consumer by identity theft. I got an A+ on it, but that changed me in a big way. I was always security conscience after leaving the army and growing up with an old dad who was very cautious. I always use ad blocks and pay for streaming with no ads. I don't ever want to take another chance with that whenever I can. That is the biggest problem we have because it's not about them collecting the data, but how secure they have it. Like why have it all in one place? It's cheaper to deal with instead of spreading it out. Both the government and these big tech companies only care about themselves and that's an issue. I don't use a lot of social media any more. Yt is basically it for me, but I know a lot of people who are literally plugged in 😹😹😹 harder for them. I love ads for, eBay and Amazon because they are targeted, but I don't like apps and websites who aren't built with ads in mind and just inject them. Sure security is much better now, but nothing is 100% secure, at the end of the day it's all just 1s and 0s. Most of the time I just make my own apps for simple things or find open source projects I can download and build myself
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