Personal responsibility only gets you so far when the big money actively fights against it. I think the answer lies in both holding companies like Google to higher standards as well as improving access to the knowledge we need to navigate what the world has become. It doesn’t help anybody when the FBI has recommended people use an ad blocker for over a decade but nobody has ever heard them say it.
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Zak@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI’m not sure what the best answer to that is. I don’t think it’s forcing Google to improve its search results.
I want it to be the average person gaining a baseline level of computer and media literacy such that they seek out and find apps that cannot send sensitive data to third parties without the user’s clear intent, but I don’t think we’ll ever get there.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
It is improving search result, with filters. Ads, tracking, data deletion possibility, in-app purchases, license, etc…
At least some of these are already tracked.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately I think the age of computer literacy came and went. Phones don’t even seem to want you to know that a file is a thing.