The Burden of Fighting Has Become Too Much for Me

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2 pointsjckahn4 comments

The secret of privacy is to reduce your overall digital footprint. If you're asking yourself "how can I use social media is a private way?" the answer is: you don't use social media.

Digital privacy only becomes a real day-to-day problem if you live your life on the internet, which you don't have to do. Of course, third parties will track our shopping habits when we use rewards cards, credit rating agencies have poor security, and there's always the ever-present eyes of government watching us, but at a certain point you need to accept that you cannot control everything, and attempting to do so is more of a mental health problem than privacy concerns. If you find yourself developing PTSD from an inability to control online privacy, you probably have more fundamental problems than third party cookies

PTSD from dealing with assholes and bad policy at work? Good Lord. If your skin is razor thin, then maybe it is time to get some therapy.

I agree, but another way to read it is that he has PTSD from something else (maybe he's a war veteran, who knows) and that is mentally weighing on him in addition to the issues of trying to manage privacy

I thought about that, but you'd think he'd mention as much.

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