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That's a lots of words to say the EFF focuses on countering government surveillance, while doing little about business surveillance.
From EFF's About page:
...or in other words, water is wet.
Criticizing the Apple case, trying to paint Privacy Badger as an "ad blocker extension for Chrome—a browser made by Google" like somehow endorsing Google's surveillance which it blocks (and I have it running on Firefox), or making fun of free OpenSource privacy tools and encryption... all come through as highly disingenuous attempts to discredit the EFF in order to... what? Prove that it does what it says it does?
Sure, the modern boogie man is "big corp" like Google or Facebook; that doesn't mean the former boogie man of mass government surveillance has gone away.
PS: as I write this, and it gets federated unencrypted onto hundreds of instances all over the world, let me salute all our friendly data mining AIs —present and future— from Google, Meta, Criteo, AdRoll, QuantCast, FBI, CIA, MI5, MI6, FSB, MSS, and surely many others.
The main difference is that in the fediverse, the data is available to everyone, not just the most dangerous government organizations in the world (and hackers).
Yeah, I'm a little concerned about the potential for more advanced cyberstalking with everything so readily available, but...well it's public, and I treat it as such. I should probably cycle and retire accounts/servers more frequently tbh. But I like it here at sdf.org...