Are we under attack?

The defeat is part of this is probably one of the worst. Privacy nihilism has got to be like, the dream customer mindset for theses places. Tired enough to stop resisting, cynical enough to mock people who are still going for it, and comfortable enough to conflate surrender for intelligence. That is why the all or nothing privacy stuff works so well. I do know that the ftc already talks about dark patterns for consumers, and the nist has talked about security fatigue. Wear people down and make privacy choices sometimes annoying, make the defaults wicked easy, and a lot of people give up. So to me, I can see how surveillance companies would benefit from pushing that mindset on social media. “Privacy is dead” is basically free advertising for them. The worst part of something like this is they barely have to create that attitude. People already and naturally move toward status quo bias and learned helplessness. Into a certain degree in what studies that I’ve read have showed, Gen Z is kind of getting worse for this kind of thing. So for these companies, it becomes a win win. People drift toward the easiest option, while the industry gets to rebrand surrender as common sense. If these surveillance companies are doing targeted social media campaigns, or any kind of astroturfing, I would imagine they wouldn’t have to put much work into it.