I use ProtonMail, and I was thinking, “Damn, it’s spectacular not being tracked… but hold on a minute. Perhaps less than gmail, but still at all. And what about browser fingerprinting, and cookies, and even fonts!” I ended up in that feedback loop we all end up in. Perhaps ignorance is bliss? What is something you (might) wish you were ignorant of?
1st-century BCE Syrian-Latin writer Publilius Syrus reads:
In nil sapiendo vita iucundissima est
(“Life is most delightful when one knows nothing.”)
Ignorance is bliss until it isn’t. At which point you’ll be completely unprepared to deal with the problems you’ve been pretending don’t exist.
There’s no perfect privacy. Just understanding your threat level. Minimizing the surface area of data collected on you is always a good thing. Just gotta discover what points matter the most to you.
Not an answer to your question, but…
are you saying I need to be worried about fonts spying on me now? Like typeface?
Life is hard whether you’re ignorant or not, whether you’re kind or not. There’s no way to make life simple or always comfortable. So I think you’re better off choosing to be not ignorant, and to be kind.
I like your take, I think most of the “advantages” of beign ignorant come from the increased damage we’d cause to others, directly or indirectly, without mental ripercussion; so ultimately we’d all just suffer way more.
