Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress?
1984@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
It fucking sucks. I used to be excited about tech too, but now I just dread what they will come up with next. Because it’s all about spying on everyone now, and taking away freedoms. Literally 1984.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I found it healthy to find humour in companies collecting boatloads of telemetry data to sell to brokers who then manage to make the data worse while they curate it, then sell it to advertisers who manage to fail to properly utilize the data they pay boatloads to access, and you end up with “targeted” ads that are no better targeted than advertisements placed on broadcast television. It’s a cycle of money that somehow creates wealth and cash flow out of nothing and provides no value in the end. Its the bullshittiest of bullshit jobs. And by simply blocking and avoiding ads you make that money cycle even more pointless!
1984@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Sure, I can see the humor in it also from that perspective. I just don’t think it will stop at ads. In China, they have a citizen score system based on data collection like this. And if you drop too low, you won’t get loans, or jobs.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
More recent reporting indicates this is not true. It appears the earlier reporting indicating this was based on a mix of bad translation and poorly identified conjecture. But mass data collection certainly enables no shortage or scary totalitarian surveillance.
Really I just wanted to share a perspective that can help handle the mental load of knowing how bad things are with mass data collection