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It's really not about me being able to find an individual solution for myself. I do use imported chinese devices without play shit for my personal stuff and a still supported grapheneos device. By choice I route all my internet traffic through remote jump boxes and shit.
I do almost all of my internet on hard mode. But I cannot avoid the worst downstream impacts of these changes, and neither can you, because they are social in type and scale.
big problem with "privacy" concepts is the idea that the problem or any solutions are individual. it is not an issue that can be meaningfully addressed at the consumer.
Can't seem to crystalize my thoughts into the reply I want to make, but this really reminds me of how liberal countries individualize the problem of dealing with (usually "external") existential threats.
Like issuing advice and toothless water restrictions during drought. Pandemic response. Climate change. etc.
I have snapped pretty harshly in other threads at people who push the "its your problem and you can deal with it" type of attitude and I haven't quite understood why it provokes such hostility in me because I don't think it's a purely altruistic concern for people who aren't technically capable of protecting themselves.
The intuition that I'm feeling is that a lot of people who don't have anything to gain by doing so still push and mainstream issues into the "individual solution" problem space as a coping mechanism / psychological defense.
Like if you make the problem individual, then it becomes a matter of individual opinion whether something is good or bad and whether we should be actively involved in doing something about it. Maybe there's a self interested part of us that subconsciously knows that when things are terrible and terrifying that there is self soothing "value" in convincing yourself that you had a choice and opted in even if that means you're to blame.
So, perhaps, my response comes from seeing "just get a china phone bro" people as basically victimizing themselves and encouraging others to do so, thus actively removing any potential in themselves or others to even make informed decisions in their own self interest.
MAYBE I'm doing too much thinking on part of this. Maybe the other take away is that this too is as inevitable as the climate apocalypse. Shit pisses me off tho I tell ya whut