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> EDIT: I brought the age factor up because I am under the impression that people born after 2000 are so used to getting filmed and photographed everywhere that they don't have such reservations

If my daughters are anything to go by you seem to be right. I'm trying to make sure that at least the home network and devices used on it leak as little personal data as possible - router-based content blocking (ads etc.), DNS proxy which blackholes unwanted domains, search through Searx, Youtube proxied through Invidious, Twitter proxied through Nitter, Reddit proxied through libreddit, Nextcloud for "cloudy" things, Exim4 for mail, Pixelfed for photo sharing, Peertube for video, Airsonic for audio/books, etc - but they really don't seem to care one bit whether they're being tracked and profiled by the world and its dog. They don't seem to realise there is no need to allow those companies to leech them for all their data nor do they seem to realise the potential negatives in allowing the leeches to parasitize them. At least they are not on TikTok (which I block at the router), Facebook (the site, one of them uses Instagram and as such still remains within Zuck's clutches) or Twitter.



If you ever find out how to explain it to them, let me know.




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