For the record: I don't like having to advocate for an extreme solution like this, but these people are a danger to public health and they must be interdicted. I'm getting damned sick and tired of people being so wilfully ignorant and everyone else paying the price. In 2019 there is NO REASON for anyone to get measles, whooping cough, polio, or anything else there are childhood vaccinations against, these vaccinations have been used safely for DECADES and DECADES. If some adults are so stupid as to insist their kids don't get them, then someone has to step in. Sorry, but I'm not sorry at all, this is just the way it has to be.
YouTube has gone from a relatively benign place where cat videos were posted, to Just Another Social Media site. Eschew all the 'social media' 'features' and just watch the damned cat videos instead.
You want to foil these nosy corporate assholes? Use an Adblocker 100% of the time (I recommend uBlock Origin), NoScript, and most of all, a well-practiced lack of attention for any and all ads that can't be handled by the above. Additionally, either clear your cookies when you close your browser, or use an add-on that clears cookies not whitelisted. You don't have to be subjected to ads, and you can train yourself to let them roll off your forebrain like water off a duck's back and not make their way into your memory.
Of course you should also do everything you can to reduce your digital footprint as much as possible: do not use your real name online, ever. Stay away from so-called 'social media' (which is just a honeytrap for your very-much-personal data anyway; be 'social' for real with people you care to stay in touch with). Don't send anything sensitive in email or even text messages, always assume it's compromised. Don't use 'The Cloud' to store anything for any reason, assume it's compromised and being sifted through, regardless of what they tell you; keep your own data on storage devices you own and physically control. Don't allow people to post pictures of you online, ever; easier by the way to not allow people to take pictures of you in the first place. Don't use a smartphone; they're close to impossible to keep secure, and are easily compromised (documentably so, and if you don't believe that then you're not paying attention). At the very least, limit smartphone internet access as much as possible, and never for anything personally sensitive, always assume your wireless company is snooping into everything you use it for. I'd recommend using a VPN as much as possible except for the fact that you can't necessarily trust VPN providers any more than you can trust wireless companies and ISPs. Likewise I'd recommend using TOR as much as possible, but there's evidence to suggest TOR is compromised, or at least is easily compromised; if you do use TOR, be aware of what country the exit node resides in, and keep changing it until it comes up in a country that (at least theoretically) has laws respecting peoples' privacy (i.e. Russia or Ukraine are bad choices, for instance).
I think the above gives you the general idea. The 'Information Age' has given way to the 'Age of Snooping'. You're right to be paranoid, because someone is indeed watching you, more likely many 'someones'. The only way to 100% protect your privacy anymore is to never use the internet and not have a telephone of any kind (including a landline); i.e. have zero digital footprint. It's possible to live that way but very difficult. The best most of us can do is be vigilant and careful about what we do and say online. Some may say 'The damage is already done, there's no point in trying anymore', but that's nonsense, if you start paying attention and limiting your digital footprint as much as posssible today, after a while all the data that's been collected on you will 'go stale' and predictions of what you might do and say will become less accurate as more time passes. Do yourself a solid and work to make their data on you less accurate.
UBI clearly and objectively will not work for an entire population under ANY circumstances. There's cautionary tales about it in any number of novels and it makes it clear: not only does taking away any incentive to do something productive with your life make people lazy, not only does taking away that incentive give them no reason to learn anything that might make them productive people, thus enslaving them to government dole, it will inevitably bankrupt any government foolhardy enough to try something like this. I do not see where any debate is necessary and I am embarassed that anyone would seriously consider running a country this way. Luckily there are still enough clear-headed people in positions to make decisions about things that I have no fear of it ever happening; all that is left is to shush the people who somehow still believe such nonsense could actually work.
Oh and by the way: I am a registered Democrat, allegedly a so-called 'liberal', and I am saying so-called 'UBI' is utter and complete nonsense. Stick that in your pipes and smoke it, 'Conservatives'; just blew your preconceived notions out of the water.
Are you dumb? Any chance I'd ever be persuaded to use their shitty service has now dropped to ZERO. Do you think I'm the only person on the planet who can say that? That they're now going to attract fewer new customers?
Many people use adblockers and for damned good reasons. If they're stupid enough to piss off their customers by making it a violation of their ToS to use an adblocker then I guess they don't care if they stay in business -- and I don't think 'services' like Spotify are worthwhile in the first place and I'd be perfectly happy to see them all go out of business. I'd much prefer the free internet radio we once had before ASCAP and everyone else involved jumped on them and beat them to death. If that all 'triggers' you then that's your problem not mine.
I'm not going to shill for a specific pharmaceutical product by mentioning it's name, but oddly enough, DVR and I-don't-watch-commercials-or-not, I managed to notice there is a product on the market that is an inhaled version of insulin.
I don't even like 'streaming' services, especially for things like music, although so many of you here on Slashdot would argue that I should be -- but Spotify disqualifies itself entirely with this move. I'm not going to disable adblockers and NoScript and other things I have loaded just to access anyones' service, and I suspect I'm not alone in that. Enjoy going out of business, Spotify. And nothing of value was lost.
Sadly, you may be right. Worse, it'll take years, maybe decades, for the next POTUS to undo the damage the current Administration has already done, weeding out the destructive appointees, waiting for certain SCOTUS members to retire or die so they can be replaced, and so on. The only mitigating factor to some of the above is many of the appointees of the current Administration are so inept and incompetent that they can't even manage to do any real damage. So many of them think somehow being the 'head' of something means they have license to be autocrats, and that's not how things work.
So far as I'm concerned, we clearly and objectively need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible, and try our damnedest to halt and reverse the progress of global climate change that our species' civilization is responsible for.
However: The rank-and-file citizen of this or pretty much any other country is not far-seeing enough, either geographically or chronologically, to grasp how important all of this is, and how what we do about all this today, while inconvenient and even painful, is necessary to ensure that not only future generations of our own species have a planet to live on that's hospitable to them, but that all life on our world has a hospitable environment to live in. This is not even counting the Dominionist types, who see no need or reason to try to preserve the Earth, or the greedy types who just plain don't give a damn about anything other than lining their own pockets and living large while they can, and screw 'future generations'. The above are, and always have been, the majority of the roadblock on the path to cleaning up the mess our species has made. What's worse, those who, for whatever reasons, speak against any sort of changes intended to help stop global climate change, politicize the issue to people who might listen to reason ('fake news' and 'alternative facts') causing them to turn away from the science and logic and reason. What has to happen is hearts and minds have to be changed where possible, and the greedy and the religious zealots have to be silenced, or at least discredited, at the same time. Otherwise nothing is going to happen, and Grand Plans like this one will go nowhere. Even if Democrats gain control of the Senate as well as the House, and we have a Democrat in the Whitehouse again, the GOP and all who support them will do everything they can to stop and dismantle it. Sooner or later Republicans get control again, and as we see in the last two years of the current Administration, they'll systematically dismantle and destroy anything that might get done. Bottom line: We need to get our collective heads out of our collective asses, stop politicizing everything, and agree that this is the only logical, rational way forward, and get it done, once and for all. We have little time left to do anything; it has to start now.
That's all I have to say on the subject -- other than how much 'studies' like this perhaps inflate or spin their findings in such a way that maybe they're just trying to attract more funding sources; basically, clickbait for investors.
I respect what you're saying; the average Joe or Jane more-or-less thinks that what's inside their computer or phone or tablet is Hogswarts magic spells, fairy dust, and Unicorn farts, meanwhile people like you and I were building computers and playing with them back before the IBM Model 5150 hit the market. That being said, 20 years ago 'backing up the computer' when a 60 megabyte HDD was considered big for a consumer end-user, I struggled to back the thing up, at first trying to use crappy streaming-tape drives, then giving up when I discovered that the drives were crap, didn't last, and all those tapes I'd bought and backed stuff up to were unrecoverable junk. Now I'm booting Ubuntu off a 500GB SSD, with a mostly-full 1TB HDD, and there's not even a question of 'backing it up', not in the down-to-the-bare-metal way I'd like to. Of course I'm poor, especially right now; maybe when I'm not poor again I'll go out and get me a 10TB enterprise-grade drive in an external enclosure myself, and have a regular backup strategy again -- but if you look at it from the classical perspective of 'regular backups', using one HDD to back up another would get some derisive grins from people in-the-know. So I can see how this whole 'cloud' scam gets a foot in the door with people -- regardless of how many millennia it would take to do a bare-metal backup of systems like you and I have.
Really, I should just put this sort of thing in a textfile and copypaste it when necessary rather than exercising my fingers every time..
I really do think 'the cloud' is just a scam. More of a culture-shift being pushed by The Rich and the corporate world to discourage people from actually owning anything themselves towards a culture of 'pay, pay, pay forever' monthly fees to rent everything: 'streaming' media instead of buying copies of what you like; 'leased' cars instead of owning one (but you're still responsible for all the maintenance); 'rental' houses (as much as a house payment, but you build no equity!); have someone else keep your data and important files instead of keeping them yourself. If you look at it a certain way, you might believe that it's a movement towards easing people into a new form of feudalism, where The Rich and rich corporations are the only ones who 'own' anything, and everyone else has to pay the rich to use things.
More relevant to this subject: So they used the ages-old 'first taste is free' tactic to get people in droves to use their service, and now they're saying "pay us or your pictures go bye-bye". It's far from the first time this sort of thing has happened and it won't be the last because people keep falling for it. You can say "Oh, $50 a year is not expensive", but face it, it's danegeld; it's $50 now, in a while it'll go up, and before you know it it'll be some monthy fee that amounts to hundreds of dollars a year. Just like boiling a frog or a crab, you start out with cold water and turn the heat up slowly, so they don't notice..
You acknowledge that for $50 (or so) you can store all the photos you'll ever take, on your own device, and never worry about a 'service' going out of business, or being hacked, or holding your photos hostage, stet? However you point out 'backups'. I put this to you, then: you buy an external 1TB (or larger; they're getting larger and cheaper all the time) and you only fire it up when you need to access it. Modern rotating-media drives are 'mature technology', very robust. The chance anymore of a spontaneous failure is very small. Also, so many people never back-up their main computer at all, because there's no practical solution to do so (please, don't say "use the cloud", either). 99% of everyone won't bother anyway, and there's not much reason to do so. So maybe if your photos (or whatever) are that important, you get an external RAID box with a mirror set; now you're as covered as you can be. Or, if it's important enough to you, you get an external drive with a 1TB SSD in it, and that also only gets powered up when you need it; now the chance of failure is so small over your lifetime that you needn't even think about it. Only the most mission-critical, life-ruining-if-lost files need to be 'backed up' anywhere; if it's that important that your life will be ruined if you lose them, then I guess you should be motivated enough to get a second storage device, copy it all, and get a safety deposit box at your bank to store it. Now you're covered, and you still own all the devices and have 100% control of your files. Somewhat less convenient? Yes, but it's not pulling teeth sans-anasthetic, either. So again, I say: why bother with 'The Cloud' when they can hold your data hostage, or lose your data, or get breached by hackers and your data gets stolen, or they just plain go out of business and your data is gone anyway? Doesn't it really make more sense to store your own data on your own device you own and always have 100% control over? To-date no one has made a compelling argument to me to change my opinion on this. 'The Cloud' still comes off as just another way to part people from their cash on a regular basis instead of them making a one-time sale to you. From a business perspective it makes perfect sense: repeat business. Why fall for that?
I have no interest in reading the same opinions from 1000 people that I can get from one person like you, and I don't agree with or approve of that opinion, and no amount of repeating it to me 999 more times is going to change my mind. Also I don't give a rat's ass if you like what I have to say or not, I think I'm right and you and yours are wrong and that's all there is to it, nothing more to discuss I guess.
Aside from the 'access anywhere' thing, I see no reason for people to just go get their own external 1TB (or larger!) drive and just store your own photos and other data. Seriously.
I have a better solution: how about we 'trim the fat' from the pages' sources themselves, instead of having these bloated monstrosities in the first place? I use NoScript and whitelist only a few domains, so for many sites I manually temporarily 'trust' only the domains I know are safe and don't collect data. When some website won't even load basic text without enabling Javascript, and when the NoScript list of domains that page 'needs' grows to the point where it's practically going to scroll off the bottom of the monitor, then I say there's something seriously wrong with the way webpages are created these days.
You and 'people' like you are either also racist/bigoted/etc, or you're only capable of seeing what's on the surface and not what's implied. Or are you just so new to the Internet that you don't understand how some people operate?
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For the record: I don't like having to advocate for an extreme solution like this, but these people are a danger to public health and they must be interdicted. I'm getting damned sick and tired of people being so wilfully ignorant and everyone else paying the price. In 2019 there is NO REASON for anyone to get measles, whooping cough, polio, or anything else there are childhood vaccinations against, these vaccinations have been used safely for DECADES and DECADES. If some adults are so stupid as to insist their kids don't get them, then someone has to step in. Sorry, but I'm not sorry at all, this is just the way it has to be.
YouTube has gone from a relatively benign place where cat videos were posted, to Just Another Social Media site. Eschew all the 'social media' 'features' and just watch the damned cat videos instead.
You want to foil these nosy corporate assholes? Use an Adblocker 100% of the time (I recommend uBlock Origin), NoScript, and most of all, a well-practiced lack of attention for any and all ads that can't be handled by the above. Additionally, either clear your cookies when you close your browser, or use an add-on that clears cookies not whitelisted. You don't have to be subjected to ads, and you can train yourself to let them roll off your forebrain like water off a duck's back and not make their way into your memory.
Of course you should also do everything you can to reduce your digital footprint as much as possible: do not use your real name online, ever. Stay away from so-called 'social media' (which is just a honeytrap for your very-much-personal data anyway; be 'social' for real with people you care to stay in touch with). Don't send anything sensitive in email or even text messages, always assume it's compromised. Don't use 'The Cloud' to store anything for any reason, assume it's compromised and being sifted through, regardless of what they tell you; keep your own data on storage devices you own and physically control. Don't allow people to post pictures of you online, ever; easier by the way to not allow people to take pictures of you in the first place. Don't use a smartphone; they're close to impossible to keep secure, and are easily compromised (documentably so, and if you don't believe that then you're not paying attention). At the very least, limit smartphone internet access as much as possible, and never for anything personally sensitive, always assume your wireless company is snooping into everything you use it for. I'd recommend using a VPN as much as possible except for the fact that you can't necessarily trust VPN providers any more than you can trust wireless companies and ISPs. Likewise I'd recommend using TOR as much as possible, but there's evidence to suggest TOR is compromised, or at least is easily compromised; if you do use TOR, be aware of what country the exit node resides in, and keep changing it until it comes up in a country that (at least theoretically) has laws respecting peoples' privacy (i.e. Russia or Ukraine are bad choices, for instance).
I think the above gives you the general idea. The 'Information Age' has given way to the 'Age of Snooping'. You're right to be paranoid, because someone is indeed watching you, more likely many 'someones'. The only way to 100% protect your privacy anymore is to never use the internet and not have a telephone of any kind (including a landline); i.e. have zero digital footprint. It's possible to live that way but very difficult. The best most of us can do is be vigilant and careful about what we do and say online. Some may say 'The damage is already done, there's no point in trying anymore', but that's nonsense, if you start paying attention and limiting your digital footprint as much as posssible today, after a while all the data that's been collected on you will 'go stale' and predictions of what you might do and say will become less accurate as more time passes. Do yourself a solid and work to make their data on you less accurate.
Never underestimate our species' immense capacity for stupidity.
UBI clearly and objectively will not work for an entire population under ANY circumstances. There's cautionary tales about it in any number of novels and it makes it clear: not only does taking away any incentive to do something productive with your life make people lazy, not only does taking away that incentive give them no reason to learn anything that might make them productive people, thus enslaving them to government dole, it will inevitably bankrupt any government foolhardy enough to try something like this. I do not see where any debate is necessary and I am embarassed that anyone would seriously consider running a country this way. Luckily there are still enough clear-headed people in positions to make decisions about things that I have no fear of it ever happening; all that is left is to shush the people who somehow still believe such nonsense could actually work.
Oh and by the way: I am a registered Democrat, allegedly a so-called 'liberal', and I am saying so-called 'UBI' is utter and complete nonsense. Stick that in your pipes and smoke it, 'Conservatives'; just blew your preconceived notions out of the water.
Trollololol. Go back to your containment unit: https://boards.4chan.org/pol
They already do that, it's called BROADCAST RADIO. I already get that for free.
Are you dumb? Any chance I'd ever be persuaded to use their shitty service has now dropped to ZERO. Do you think I'm the only person on the planet who can say that? That they're now going to attract fewer new customers?
Many people use adblockers and for damned good reasons. If they're stupid enough to piss off their customers by making it a violation of their ToS to use an adblocker then I guess they don't care if they stay in business -- and I don't think 'services' like Spotify are worthwhile in the first place and I'd be perfectly happy to see them all go out of business. I'd much prefer the free internet radio we once had before ASCAP and everyone else involved jumped on them and beat them to death. If that all 'triggers' you then that's your problem not mine.
I'm not going to shill for a specific pharmaceutical product by mentioning it's name, but oddly enough, DVR and I-don't-watch-commercials-or-not, I managed to notice there is a product on the market that is an inhaled version of insulin.
Sure, sure. Because Trump hasn't made a complete mockery of this entire country in front of the world. Go fuck yourself, AC.
I don't even like 'streaming' services, especially for things like music, although so many of you here on Slashdot would argue that I should be -- but Spotify disqualifies itself entirely with this move. I'm not going to disable adblockers and NoScript and other things I have loaded just to access anyones' service, and I suspect I'm not alone in that. Enjoy going out of business, Spotify. And nothing of value was lost.
Sadly, you may be right. Worse, it'll take years, maybe decades, for the next POTUS to undo the damage the current Administration has already done, weeding out the destructive appointees, waiting for certain SCOTUS members to retire or die so they can be replaced, and so on. The only mitigating factor to some of the above is many of the appointees of the current Administration are so inept and incompetent that they can't even manage to do any real damage. So many of them think somehow being the 'head' of something means they have license to be autocrats, and that's not how things work.
So far as I'm concerned, we clearly and objectively need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible, and try our damnedest to halt and reverse the progress of global climate change that our species' civilization is responsible for.
However: The rank-and-file citizen of this or pretty much any other country is not far-seeing enough, either geographically or chronologically, to grasp how important all of this is, and how what we do about all this today, while inconvenient and even painful, is necessary to ensure that not only future generations of our own species have a planet to live on that's hospitable to them, but that all life on our world has a hospitable environment to live in. This is not even counting the Dominionist types, who see no need or reason to try to preserve the Earth, or the greedy types who just plain don't give a damn about anything other than lining their own pockets and living large while they can, and screw 'future generations'. The above are, and always have been, the majority of the roadblock on the path to cleaning up the mess our species has made. What's worse, those who, for whatever reasons, speak against any sort of changes intended to help stop global climate change, politicize the issue to people who might listen to reason ('fake news' and 'alternative facts') causing them to turn away from the science and logic and reason. What has to happen is hearts and minds have to be changed where possible, and the greedy and the religious zealots have to be silenced, or at least discredited, at the same time. Otherwise nothing is going to happen, and Grand Plans like this one will go nowhere. Even if Democrats gain control of the Senate as well as the House, and we have a Democrat in the Whitehouse again, the GOP and all who support them will do everything they can to stop and dismantle it. Sooner or later Republicans get control again, and as we see in the last two years of the current Administration, they'll systematically dismantle and destroy anything that might get done. Bottom line: We need to get our collective heads out of our collective asses, stop politicizing everything, and agree that this is the only logical, rational way forward, and get it done, once and for all. We have little time left to do anything; it has to start now.
Come on, who do you people think you're fooling?
That's all I have to say on the subject -- other than how much 'studies' like this perhaps inflate or spin their findings in such a way that maybe they're just trying to attract more funding sources; basically, clickbait for investors.
I respect what you're saying; the average Joe or Jane more-or-less thinks that what's inside their computer or phone or tablet is Hogswarts magic spells, fairy dust, and Unicorn farts, meanwhile people like you and I were building computers and playing with them back before the IBM Model 5150 hit the market. That being said, 20 years ago 'backing up the computer' when a 60 megabyte HDD was considered big for a consumer end-user, I struggled to back the thing up, at first trying to use crappy streaming-tape drives, then giving up when I discovered that the drives were crap, didn't last, and all those tapes I'd bought and backed stuff up to were unrecoverable junk. Now I'm booting Ubuntu off a 500GB SSD, with a mostly-full 1TB HDD, and there's not even a question of 'backing it up', not in the down-to-the-bare-metal way I'd like to. Of course I'm poor, especially right now; maybe when I'm not poor again I'll go out and get me a 10TB enterprise-grade drive in an external enclosure myself, and have a regular backup strategy again -- but if you look at it from the classical perspective of 'regular backups', using one HDD to back up another would get some derisive grins from people in-the-know. So I can see how this whole 'cloud' scam gets a foot in the door with people -- regardless of how many millennia it would take to do a bare-metal backup of systems like you and I have.
More bullshit. Screw them. Use OpenOffice or Libre Office or anything other than their bullshit.
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..and sits there with the cursor blinking, waiting for a new command.
As usual, I'm not impressed.
Really, I should just put this sort of thing in a textfile and copypaste it when necessary rather than exercising my fingers every time..
I really do think 'the cloud' is just a scam. More of a culture-shift being pushed by The Rich and the corporate world to discourage people from actually owning anything themselves towards a culture of 'pay, pay, pay forever' monthly fees to rent everything: 'streaming' media instead of buying copies of what you like; 'leased' cars instead of owning one (but you're still responsible for all the maintenance); 'rental' houses (as much as a house payment, but you build no equity!); have someone else keep your data and important files instead of keeping them yourself. If you look at it a certain way, you might believe that it's a movement towards easing people into a new form of feudalism, where The Rich and rich corporations are the only ones who 'own' anything, and everyone else has to pay the rich to use things.
More relevant to this subject: So they used the ages-old 'first taste is free' tactic to get people in droves to use their service, and now they're saying "pay us or your pictures go bye-bye". It's far from the first time this sort of thing has happened and it won't be the last because people keep falling for it. You can say "Oh, $50 a year is not expensive", but face it, it's danegeld; it's $50 now, in a while it'll go up, and before you know it it'll be some monthy fee that amounts to hundreds of dollars a year. Just like boiling a frog or a crab, you start out with cold water and turn the heat up slowly, so they don't notice..
You acknowledge that for $50 (or so) you can store all the photos you'll ever take, on your own device, and never worry about a 'service' going out of business, or being hacked, or holding your photos hostage, stet? However you point out 'backups'. I put this to you, then: you buy an external 1TB (or larger; they're getting larger and cheaper all the time) and you only fire it up when you need to access it. Modern rotating-media drives are 'mature technology', very robust. The chance anymore of a spontaneous failure is very small. Also, so many people never back-up their main computer at all, because there's no practical solution to do so (please, don't say "use the cloud", either). 99% of everyone won't bother anyway, and there's not much reason to do so. So maybe if your photos (or whatever) are that important, you get an external RAID box with a mirror set; now you're as covered as you can be. Or, if it's important enough to you, you get an external drive with a 1TB SSD in it, and that also only gets powered up when you need it; now the chance of failure is so small over your lifetime that you needn't even think about it. Only the most mission-critical, life-ruining-if-lost files need to be 'backed up' anywhere; if it's that important that your life will be ruined if you lose them, then I guess you should be motivated enough to get a second storage device, copy it all, and get a safety deposit box at your bank to store it. Now you're covered, and you still own all the devices and have 100% control of your files. Somewhat less convenient? Yes, but it's not pulling teeth sans-anasthetic, either. So again, I say: why bother with 'The Cloud' when they can hold your data hostage, or lose your data, or get breached by hackers and your data gets stolen, or they just plain go out of business and your data is gone anyway? Doesn't it really make more sense to store your own data on your own device you own and always have 100% control over? To-date no one has made a compelling argument to me to change my opinion on this. 'The Cloud' still comes off as just another way to part people from their cash on a regular basis instead of them making a one-time sale to you. From a business perspective it makes perfect sense: repeat business. Why fall for that?
Shut up faggot
I have no interest in reading the same opinions from 1000 people that I can get from one person like you, and I don't agree with or approve of that opinion, and no amount of repeating it to me 999 more times is going to change my mind. Also I don't give a rat's ass if you like what I have to say or not, I think I'm right and you and yours are wrong and that's all there is to it, nothing more to discuss I guess.
Aside from the 'access anywhere' thing, I see no reason for people to just go get their own external 1TB (or larger!) drive and just store your own photos and other data. Seriously.
I have a better solution: how about we 'trim the fat' from the pages' sources themselves, instead of having these bloated monstrosities in the first place? I use NoScript and whitelist only a few domains, so for many sites I manually temporarily 'trust' only the domains I know are safe and don't collect data. When some website won't even load basic text without enabling Javascript, and when the NoScript list of domains that page 'needs' grows to the point where it's practically going to scroll off the bottom of the monitor, then I say there's something seriously wrong with the way webpages are created these days.
You and 'people' like you are either also racist/bigoted/etc, or you're only capable of seeing what's on the surface and not what's implied. Or are you just so new to the Internet that you don't understand how some people operate?