I have spoken to many people in real life and even people in tech industries, such as programmers, don’t generally care about their privacy. Some people don’t realize the importance, but others are just simplifying accepting the narrative of “it’s impossible to use information technology without invading privacy”, especially programmers.

This is due to ignorance and lack of professionalism. Most information features we use daily don’t need my phone number or my face at the algorithmic level. Even for digital marketing and KYC, most data companies are tracking don’t end up be useful at all, yet it increases AWS bills companies have to pay.

The main stream software/internet industry, not to be sarcastic, stupid.

The problem is never algorithm. Sorting Nostr posts based on time stamp is also an algorithm. The anti algorithm narrative in Nostr community is also just ignorant of not stupid.

The key is to give least privilege or trust that any given algorithms need to run, no more.

And users should always be informed about their data usage.

GDPR is a very progressive legislation about this topic. But it is not that effective because traditional internet companies are not building on top of architectures that support privacy. It’s just an after thought.

Also, decentralization doesn’t mean privacy at all. Decentralization is about replication and availability, which implies content censorship resilience. We absolutely have decentralized non private systems.

Privacy is fundamentally about building cryptography into the core of the architecture and having zero trust, local verifiability.