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How can I go back to using Google Drive, Gmail, downloading the WhatsApp application, trusting proprietary software in general?

How can I go back to convenience knowing what I know now? Constantly aware that I'm trading my privacy and my data for convenience? Why must this road be so arduous?

Genuinely struggling with this, how do you all manage? Do you just accept it and use this stuff trying to minimize how much information on yourself you give away? Or have you resigned to self-hosted email and wood cabins (unable to fully interface with payment systems, government bureaucracy, modern technology)?

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[-] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

When your job suddenly rolls out G-Workspace or Office Online without you knowing and you come to work to a Google account with all your personal data, already out of your control, is it really a choice?

Have a job or your data. The stakes are becoming increasingly high.

"If it's useful, just use them" is an option, in some circumstances. In some, unfortunately, that doesn't apply. Is keeping your job a "convenience"?

Don't mean to attack you personally, just want to share my thoughts on the level erosion of privacy to Big Tech.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 5 hours ago

Don't put your personal info in a work account, regardless of whether it's local or cloud.

[-] iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Advice that has been valid forever. Don't mix your personal life with work. That includes software, mobile phones, computers.

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