by MarsIronPI 12 hours ago
It does to a certain audience: the people who care about privacy, security and freedom.
I suspect that as time goes on our numbers will only increase.
My non-technical mother recently texted the family group chat to try to get us to use Signal. The winds are shifting towards privacy in a broader sense than ever before. This type of counter argument ("that doesn't sell [product") is usually a bad argument when the market doesn't offer anything that actually sells on privacy. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Hopefully there's only so many times Meta can suggest some creepy connection you didn't want made before people start valuing privacy
As much as I wish, it is going the other way. Caring about the 3 requires literacy, which in the world of LLM, is one thing that going to be reduced as a whole for human-kind.
Agreed graphene is the only reason I picked up a Pixel. Google phone would have been a no thanks from me otherwise.