Thank you for not being dishonest about that.

I was very explicitly not talking about “everyone”. I was talking about the vast majority of people. You know, the other 97% of computer users that elect to use something other than Linux.

Thing is, if you’re bombarded by ads for a specific product, it means that company is spending a fortune on advertising. That is, the money their customers are paying them. I’m other words, the customers of those products are being ripped off.

They’ve been doing that for years. I’ve audited my own “likes” for years and found a bunch of BS. And we roasted one of our friends for years because he “liked” Miller Lite.

If company A has an ad that’s a good target and pays $20 and company B has an ad that’s a bad target but pays $100, which one are they going to show you?

Because I like Linux?

I can read just fine. It’s very much a skill issue, in that I don’t know what any of the words mean and when I type them in they don’t work. I am not a “skilled” Linux user, and I don’t want to be. I just want a tool to use to complete the tasks I need done.

Most people do not know or care how computers work, nor should they. They only need to know how to use them as a tool to complete their tasks. Not having a GUI makes those tasks monumental in comparison. That’s why the GUI was created, after the terminal, and why virtually everyone uses it by default.

Not true at all. Anyone can simply click and scroll around a GUI to find what they need. The terminal is a literal black box that can’t do anything unless you know explicitly and exactly what to tell it.

still has financial incentive to keeping you engaged and searching instead of finding

How so

Yeah that’s great if you know what dmesg is and how to use it.

I didn’t say he shared the files. I linked to the documentary in the comment you replied to, but on PeerTube.

He hooked his laptop up to school servers and was copying all the data on them.

https://fedi.video/w/6mc8MBSTGCpSC4YoZZi5r6

I dunno man, the problem with most private servers is that they’re just that. I don’t know where they are or who is hosting them. I only know where mine is.

Something something anything but metric…

You already forgot the other choices…

Self hosting and p2p

How about infosec.pub?

Privacy is not binary. It lives on a Spectrum. On one end you have Proton and Tuta. And on the other, Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, etc.

These are your choices. There’s no other way.

Users don’t need to configure email that’s kind of the point…

Users don’t “need” to configure these services either. That’s the entire point.

You can either configure it yourself, or use someone else’s that has configured it for you. Or you can choose one of the p2p apps that simply don’t require any configuration. These are your choices.

Adminforge is Linux tutorials

AdminForge runs a variety of services for public use.

And disroot has not the best reputation if I can trust the few top links in my search results due to its gtc where they mentioned that they would collaborate in criminal investigations as well.

Much like Proton (and every other company/org), they have to either choose to comply or close up shop.