Is online privacy already dead?
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Responses recognize that privacy erosion is tied to user choice and convenience trade-offs (free services for data access), with mixed attitudes about whether this matters in practice. Early consensus frames privacy loss as inevitable but questions how much individuals actually care about the consequences.
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Feb 25, 2026
Online privacy's been on life support for years, honestly. Between data brokers selling our info, apps tracking our location, and every website dropping cookies on us, we're basically living in a panopticon. The only way to have real privacy now is to literally not go online, which isn't really an option for most of us.
Feb 25, 2026
Lol, dead? Privacy died the moment we decided a free email account was worth handing over our entire digital existence. But also, do I actually care that much? Like sure, Google knows I search for weird stuff at 2 AM, but at least my ads are relevant. Trade-off city, population: me.