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I'm losing faith (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jsomae@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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(Please don't downvote just because I need some help.)

I was once a privacy nut. But it's getting so hard nowadays, and there are so many more important problems -- global warming, AI, the inevitable collapse of the current world order... how does privacy improve the world? Please help remind me.

I do approve of privacy, of course. All this protect-the-children flak is bullshit. I just can't remember why I thought it was something worth fighting for and preaching about.

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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AI, the inevitable collapse of the current world order...

To me these problems are giving motivation to fight for my privacy, because I think that if I don't, these problems will bite me harder in one way or another, or multiple.

But it's getting so hard nowadays

What obstacles have you found? Maybe we can give some guidance. In my experience there are plenty of privacy tools that are easy to use. For youtube there's piped and invidious, for always selecting a working instance farside (I think that's the name) can help.
For email and cloud storage there's proton, bitwarden for passwords. uBlock Origin against online threats and annoyances. If you want to use an AI chatbot, DuckDuckGo has a privacy proxy frontend for chatgpt, claude and 2 others. And plenty more.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Matrix and Llama are the other two and their open source! Claude is by meta. Gpt4o mini and Claude

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait. Isn't llama by meta, and claude by antrophic?

And its not Matrix, but Mixtral.

Btw I did not realize until now that the llama there is that llama. Knowing that, I probably won't use that one anymore. Even though it's proxied.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah my phone autocorrected mixtral. I use it daily. I'm not sure which of these are the safest really. But the two non open source ones are off putting and the meta llama seems well Meta. So I use mixtral.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So far I was using Claude. It has a level of quality, and the company was known as using ethical ways to source the training material. Note the past tense.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I hate the was part. It seems everyone is squeezing out ethics and just doing whatever it takes to make money. Its sickening.