Nah I'm used to being lonely. Leaving these platforms shows how few truly deep friendships you have.
You get used to it.
>I had the same reaction when platforms started asking for my cellphone number... after some years I just started giving it to them.
Even when I gave Facebook my number, that wasn't enough. I drew a line at some point. If everyone else wants to sacrifice privacy for the sake of pseudo-community, so be it.
The weird thing is that you give your personal info, including your biometrics, to your government and your bank. You probably weren't thrilled when they asked you for your finger prints but eventually you gave them anyway because the alternative was not having a bank account. Everybody folds in the end.
What makes you think "corporations bad" but it's OK if governments and bankers do it? They're just as malicious and incompetent.
This is like being afraid to fly when you drive every day which is 200 times more dangerous.
That's what I think about the cries around a lack of privacy.
I know I somehow ended up in a forum full of IT people and that might my problem, but: People are not software. You don't get to flag something as "problematic" on other people.
Deal with it and move on.
Install cameras everywhere there's assumed privacy like the bathroom / water closet, bedrooms, or anywhere else. Can keep costs down by simply filming it as well. When anyone asks what you've been doing lately simply provide them those recordings. Might want to upload somewhere if easier, and freely post those too since you don't care.
Make copies of your ID, credit cards, phone number, and email addresses. Have some with two of those, some with three, and some with all four included. Mix it up in any carefree fashion you'd like. Next time one is required hand them copies, and then carelessly proceed about your business. Tell them to get over it, and move on, since that's their social problem of which you don't care regardless if they care you're a weirdo that doesn't care.
I just buy 90 day prepaid SIM cards. At the end of the 90 days I’m usually in another country.
My Google Voice number is sufficient for authing to Signal, but I don’t give it out to vendors/services or use it for phone calls.
I never receive any voice calls to my SIM card itself. Anyone who would want to call me knows to reach me on Signal. Anyone else, I don’t need to speak to them.
Most of the time my voice conversations are in Google Meet calls, anyway. It’s almost always for clients who don’t like to type and would prefer to be synchronous instead of using their device’s built in dictation software.
I have a rich social network, I have a family, and now more than any time in my life do I think it's important to resist.
Stop saying you'll get less radical as you age, it's just not the axiom you think it is.
For me I was 'radicalized' by raising children to adulthood and seeing the broken world we're leaving to them. Living in the US, my eldest daughter has less rights than her mother did growing up. Capitulating to the demands of fascists is not the way to a better future. Complacency has a high cost, regardless of whether it affects you personally.