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It seems so strange to me that we are locked in battle with providers mining our lives for whatever, and we have to work our asses off trying to stay anonymous, to the point of being denied service (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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or even pseudo-incriminated for attempting to maintain our own life.

It seems so stupid that I'm like a suspect for wanting an exchange of information without dropping my pants and bending over. No, I don't want cookies. Yes I want to read the article but no, I don't want to "sign up."

It makes me feel like being a f*cking hermit. But I prefer to pirate. Even though I'm not that good at it. Screw them. I got two private trackers, a VPN, and I hope that's enough.

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[-] Kepabar@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

That critical mass will never come because people don't feel the data has been stolen from them.

Rather, it's traded in exchange for whatever online services they use.

And to them it's a decent trade.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

I think that's fair if the service is free. If I'm paying for it then they shouldn't be double dipping with my data as well.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

But that's the thing, that isn't what's happening. The website is provided free of charge.

Then, the website tries to shoehorn in another, separate transaction and hide it in the fine print, where you give up your data free of charge.

There is a huge amount of deception involved. The whole point of my comment here is to try and dispel that deception, by putting hard numbers to it to show that there is significant value being taken.