Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a punchline in privacy and opt-out threads, mostly as a joke that reality has caught up to the satire.
What it is
A satirical Onion news segment announcing a Google feature that lets users opt out of Google's data collection by moving to a remote village without Google products or sunlight.
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What Hacker News said
Cites heartbeats · 2020-02 · on “Treat Facebook like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Zuckerberg”
Well, let's put it this way: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." You can stay away from Facebook and then feel really smug ten years from now when it eventually collapses. But until then, you'd have missed out on a lot of important things. The only winning move is to realize that you do not have a choice, and that the terms of service are just an illusion. For the record, I think Facebook's existence is regrettable. But the notion that you have any ability, choice, freedom, right, or opportunity to opt out from it is laughable. As for the idea of the social contract, I think you are actually spot on: > Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals