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From: Andrew <andrew@spam.net>
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Subject: Re: Samsung account
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:51:10 -0000 (UTC)
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AJL wrote on Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:38:15 -0700 :

>> And yet, since marketing tells people what to do and they do it, I'm sure
>> there are millions of Samsung Accounts gathering data every single day.
> 
> Do you use a credit card? Go to the doctor? Have a bank account? Have a 
> cell phone? Etc etc. Unless you live in a cave your life is already 
> online. Samsung is just one of hundreds...  (And worse, unlike Samsung, 
> my bank, doctor, CC, etc all know my real name)...  8-O

I've heard many people say that privacy is too hard for them, so I believe
that you gave up long ago, just as most Russians gave up thinking long ago.

>> I just happen to not want to trade my privacy for what marketing wants me
>> to do (and which I can get, anyway, without trading it for my privacy).
> 
> Online privacy in the modern world?? I could have total privacy by 
> putting on the blinders too...

It's easy to be a serf of marketing. Takes nothing. No effort. No brains.
It's a lot harder not to be one.

If you can list something of value in having a Samsung Account that is
worth the loss in privacy, I'm all ears as I've asked for that long ago.