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From: Andrew <andrew@spam.net>
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Subject: Re: Samsung account
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:29:48 -0000 (UTC)
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AJL wrote on Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:19:51 -0700 :

>> I've heard many people say that privacy is too hard for them, so I believe
>> that you gave up long ago
> 
> Gave up? No. I do conceal my ID when possible and/or necessary. And I 
> noticed that you conveniently avoided commenting on your un-private 
> online profile (CC, doctor, bank, phone, etc etc.). Understood.

Your argument is absurd for two reasons that should have been obvious.
1. You're comparing the utility of a doctor bank and CC to a Samsung app?
   (that's preposterous)
2. You're assuming I have a CC on my phone, a banking app on my phone, 
   a credit card on my phone, etc.). I do not. Nor on the Internet.

If someone wants to hack into that information, they'll have to get it
directly from my doctor, my bank and my credit card company.

However, I understand where you're coming from because most people are like
you are. Most people don't ever think about what it is that they're doing.

Most people do exactly what the marketing organizations tell them to do.
So I get it that you're butt hurt that I said you aren't thinking.

But comparing the utility of a Samsung Account to a Doctor's Visit is 
not going to impress me that you're making good decisions. It's just not.

Give me an argument that makes sense and I'm all ears.

>>>> 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.
> 
> In my case it was mainly a Samsung tablet pop-up stopper with the added 
> advantage of having the Samsung app store made available. As to privacy, 
> AJL has never complained about its loss to me...

OK. I still maintain that if you can find something inside the Samsung
Account that is worth the loss of privacy, I'd be all ears if it made sense
(as I asked the same question the first time I got a Samsung years ago).

Most people are like Russian serfs.
They do whatever they're told to do.

It's the easy way out for them.
In a way, I envy people who never stop to think what it is they're doing.

Life must be so idyllic for them, as it is with the common Russian serfs.