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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Those of you who are married, how do you go about privacy if your wife or husband does not care? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have always been curious about this. Did you get them to use other services or did they stubbornly refuse and you just accepted it? I am talking using Chrome, using Windows, using social media like Tiktok or Facebook or Instagram, etc. Bonus points if you have kids because that is even more work in the privacy realm

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My spouse is almost the opposite of me in the privacy/FOSS realm.

They use TikTok and other social media, don't mind ads, use Windows, love Chrome and their Macbook, etc.

We've talked about privacy and FOSS a lot. They have the "I don't care if China/corpos/NSA mine my data, I have nothing to hide." Plus they like targeted ads and algorithmic content suggestions.

We have a lot of mutual respect for each other and I don't force my views on them, and they know I won't use certain apps. I gently suggest FOSS apps to them and sometimes they use them, sometimes not.

They also don't object to watching shows and movies with me that I "aquire totally legally" because I don't use streaming services.

I have told them that any children we have, I want to raise with a "FOSS first" philosophy, and they are cool with that.

Ultimately, I want my kids to have the choice of what software they use, FOSS or not. But for my part, they will know that I will only support the FOSS stuff, if they want to go proprietary, that's on them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I've also discussed with my partner that they're welcome to use Facebook but I strongly object to putting photos of children on there until they're old enough to make their own decisions.

I've pointed out that posting publicly is purely for vanity reasons unless they've made a conscious decision to have exclusively friends and family. In other words, you don't need to please people who don't matter.