The author seems a bit too paranoid, if you ask me. I stopped reading the article when they mentioned that “Disneyland.com didn’t work on Tor”
In the 1980's, the German state tried twice to do a census of the population. Twice the protests by the people were so vivid, that they failed to do them. In 1983, the highest German court declared the planned census unconstitutional and in 1987, protests on May 1st turned into violence over this issue.
In 2022, Germany did a census again. There was basically no public objection.
I was an early ProtonMail and ProtonVPN supporter and for years would only chat to family members over Signal. I'm conscious of how my phone can track me and of the benefits of using cash.
But I still can't see how avoiding Disney tracking is for her kids' "safety". The Mouse doesn't loom so large in my mind. And I can't judge family members for making the judgment call that they don't really care what Facebook and Google collect about their online activity.
We badly need more experiment like those because this tell a lot about our society!
It’s exactly like vegan diets. You have moral principles and you try to see how far/how difficult it is to apply them. This also helps other realize what is happening/what they are missing.
I admire her because I would be like her before having kids. As they say: "I had principles. Now I have kids.".