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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Privacy is too abstract of a concern and is a poor motivator for springing people into action.
What helped me reduce my time on corporate social media, and then eventually deleting it, was assigning a value to my time spent scrolling.
Every time I saw an ad, I thought— that's another dollar I just gave Zuck.
Of course the going rate for 1 ad impression is far less, but consider what that ad represents—stock price, lobbying, data centers, power, influence. Maybe a dollar is about right.