Mom hears about Congress repealing the broadband privacy regulations

>mom hears about Congress repealing the broadband privacy regulations
>becomes rather alarmed about being spied on
>doesn't like the idea of someone monitoring every site she visits, recording it, and selling this information
>asks me what she can do
>"Well, at a minimum you'll need a VPN"
>"Oh. Are there free ones?"
>"If you aren't paying for it, you're not a customer, you're the product being sold. You'll have to spend at least five bucks a month"
>"hmmmm...."
>"Also Google does all the tracking that ISPs can do now. You'll need to give up gmail, chrome, and use a different search engine"
>"well that's way too much bother, I'm not going to do anything"

This is why we can't have nice things. Normies will complain but at the end of the day they won't lift a finger to change anything. See also: How they rarely or never switch mobile providers for a lower bill, letting them just sit back and keep prices high.

>becomes rather alarmed about being spied on
>doesn't like the idea of someone monitoring every site she visits, recording it, and selling this information
But this has already been happening. Normies are only making a big deal about it now because muh evil republicans

Why didn't you offer to set up alternative services for her then, faggot?

I did. She refused. Too much trouble.

She won't even log out of gmail when she's done with it, clicking logout and hitting a lastpass button to enter her credentials again when she wants to check her email is apparently also too much work, so she surfs the web logged into google at all times.

well, I mean, it's healthy to balance security and convenience and have an accurate threat model. If you're going to be making your life hell for a bit more security, you have to at least ask if it's worth it.

For a lot of people it's not.

That's ok. What becomes a problem is when such people's preferences are forced upon others. ie SJ Res 34

A better solution is to change the government. Elect people who are not afraid of the hegemonic corporate establishment. The big tech giants need to be dismantled and split into tiny, manageable entities. Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet/Google, Intel, and Facebook need to be broken into several dozen small companies. In addition, laws and regulations need to be enacted that strictly enforce our right to absolute privacy.

>MFW u realize ur mom is one of those women who has a full blown addiction to porn and faps for hours on every given day
Ur mom doesnt even care that big brother will know all of the blackes sites she frequents
Toppest of keks my man

>In addition, laws and regulations need to be enacted that strictly enforce our right to absolute privacy.
Try and find a politician anywhere in America that will back that. Shit, anywhere in the world. They're pretty much all hostile to the idea of privacy, especially the idea of citizens having information that governments can't access.

>tfw when you're such a shut-in that your mother is the only person you talk to about privacy

For that matter, how would someone get elected on that platform when there's millions of people who *want* to be in the botnet? Running a campaign for making Google and Facebook's business model illegal isn't going to win you votes from normies.

>Elect

Retard, voting is rigged.
90% of major polititians are in MUH SECRET CLUB

>go to doctor
>"my arm hurts"
>stop using your arm

thats essentially what you're telling your mother. Shit needs to change, and tinfoil minorities like you aren't enough to incite that.

its more like:

>"Doc, my arm hurts!"
>"Well, we can do a procedure to fix that, after which you'll have to go through some rehab to strengthen it"
>"That's too much work!"
>"Well, then your arm will continue to hurt, and it'll keep getting worse, if you aren't willing to do anything to improve it"

Shit needs to change alright - in the form of people's attitudes. People need to realize that nobody will look out for their rights for them, they have to do it themselves.

They protected the privacy of VHS rental records pretty damned quick when their own porn rentals were dug up

No, that was butthurt Republicans fighting back in the 80s out of spite their supreme Court pick didn't get chosen. Get ready for something similar if it fucks over Gorsuch.

Why not just buy vpn and set it up for her?

>"user! I can't get into Google! It says I'm in an unknown location and I might be getting hacked! What did you do?!?!"

>"Just confirm it with your phone. It should not bother you again."
>"No, i cant delete it. It's the only way to get internet access under current political situation."
Worked fine for me.

This x100. It's amazing what bipartisan sheep will turn a blind eye to when it doesn't fit their narrative.

>tl;dr baby-boomers are lazy fucks
nothing new here...

>email
>in browser
there's this new thing called email clients
they've been around since the 80's

Umm excuse me but me mum DOES NOT fuck black men or niggers as I like to call them

I understand that it's stupid how people will say that they don't like the government or companies spying on them, but then they'll do nothing to escape it. But the thing is, how far are you willing to go? If you really cared about not being datamined or spied on, you would have to sacrifice a lot:
>Google Chrome, Gmail, and any other sort of service provided by Google
>Basically any common email provider that exists today
>Windows, along with other Microsoft software
>Most cloud storage services
>Facebook
>Apple products
>Intel hardware
>Ubuntu Linux
>Probably any smartphone that has stock Android installed
>According to Vault 7, the government is paying phone manufacturers to not fix OS insecurities so they can spy on people and they are trying to get smart TVs to spy on their owners while they are supposedly "turned off", so you might as well just say goodbye to smartphones and smart TVs
All of this stuff which is probably only the tip of the iceberg is already a very steep change and also very impractical for everyday people (remember, most of these people have lives and jobs, they can't just cut ties with all of these services and expect their lives to be completely fine and simple after that), no matter how outraged they are.
Ultimately, you'll come to terms with the fact that evading datamining is impossible and little things like moving to Firefox or switching to Linux are like trying to block the sun with your fucking fingers. I'm not saying you should stop doing it, I'm just saying that for every spying hole you manage to seal there are probably dozens of other holes that you don't even know of. You create an illusion of safety around yourself, but eventually you'll realise it's just fucking pointless, and we'll probably never figure out the extent to which we're being spied on, so we'll never be able to prevent it.

There's no point in locking your door, If thieves really want in, they'll just break your window

>Looking out for America

>Representing the people

>bipartisan sheep
>bipartisan
dumbass republican doesn't even understand the words he's using

go gargle trump's nuthairs

But Sup Forums told me the democrats are the bad ones

Coming from my own experience and situation:

>Level1Techs posted a video on router-level VPN a week or so ago
>You can host your own e-mail with a nice name to it without being spied on
>5$ a month is not a whole lot of money
>reroute anyone going to google.com to duckduckgo.com and say it's a google doodle

It can be more friendly, user, you just have to do it on the backend.

$5/mo Linode instance + openvpn + my tomato router's support for vpn

Invisible vpn for the house.

+5 minutes for the phones vpn clients

This
There have been other attacks to the internet in general, but if democrats or other entity do it, then it's alright for normies and specially for SJW

but she's right, there is no reasonable replacement for google search or for chrome