You’re getting downvoted because you’re conflating contrarianism with critical thinking, and people have already pointed out your mistaken logic.

It has nothing to do with brand loyalty. You’re just falling into the other side of the “herd mentality” coin.

The comments here and technology community on lemmy.ml vs the ones that on the technology at lemmy.world thread sure were an interesting contrast when it was first posted…

But anyways, this is great news.

Bouncer for Android, but for iOS. One of the things I really miss about my Android phone tbh.

I’m going to assume TurboTax is an American thing, and that’s insane that you’re willingly using something that you think is selling your income, taxable earnings, and government information to advertisers.

That is NOT a reasonable expectation for most of the world that Google operates in, including California with it’s data protection laws, which once again is what this article is talking about.

You can just RTFA, it’s literally in the first three sentences:

Filing a proposed class-action suit in California, Katherine Wilson has accused Google of using Google Analytics and DoubleClick trackers on the California DMV site to unlawfully obtain information about her personal disability without her consent.

This, Wilson argued, violated the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA), as well as the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and impacted perhaps millions of drivers who had no way of knowing Google was collecting sensitive information shared only for DMV purposes.

You don’t think Google is tracking you when you’re filing your taxes online, do you?

Google doesn’t sell your data because they don’t need to. They take the data and use something called Real Time Bidding that also skirts GDPR and data protection laws/best practices.

People in this thread are really showing their ass about how little they know about how their data is actually being collected and protected. Sure, Proton isn’t 100% private, but to say Proton and Gmail are on the same levels of consumer protection is hilarious.

Sorry if I have this wrong, but the NSA is a government agency right?

…so are you telling me that the NSA is taking taxypayer money and giving it to private companies that collect data from said taxpayers and sell it for a profit?

So these companies profit twice from the same source?

Sorry, I should have specified “in this comment section”. You’re absolutely right about everything you said regarding the online news circlejerk when it comes to “perceptions”.

There’s just a lot of anti-gen Z comments in this thread that make it seem like we don’t care about privacy issues or tech literacy, when a lot of us do, or we’re JUST learning about the importance of this stuff because the first of our generation are finally gaining independence and footing in society.

For real, how are Millennials falling for the same headlines that were used to spread stupid assumptions about their own generation a decade ago, but this time about Gen Z?

Contrast to you, I hang out with a pretty straight laced crowd, and we also don’t “track each other on Snapchat” like the article or the top comment here is saying because that’s fucking weird.

What’s gonna be the Gen Z avocado toast headline, I wonder…