Is there any[2] future in which true online privacy is achieved without legislation, through sheer innovation?
Is this future just for power-users (like now) or also for the average internet enjoyer?
Today it seems like you can't truly hide, you are just blocking ads.
[0] https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist
[1] Leaving plenty of steps for your imagination (or experience)
[2] I genuinely mean any
As corporate robots get more and more entangled with the unintended and unpredictable consequences and costs of handling too much personal data, they start changing their behavior. It effects them as much as it effects everyone else. It effects their families, employees, customers, communities, countries etc etc. No one is immune
We scaled up systems so fast thanks to Moores law, cheap storage/network etc that issues scaled up faster than fixes. But past 5-6 years a lot more energy and resources are going into hardening, securing systems, quickly recognizing and reacting to issues, reducing the amount of unnecessary data being collected etc.
Learning takes time. That doesn't mean learning is not happening
[0] With DNS trimming, forced DoH(TTPS), forced over VPN, no VPN no internet
[1] While inter-railing, tickets paid in cash
[2] https://www.amiunique.org/
[3] installed on an SD card or USB-C attached NVMe, with a dummy OS install on the built-in storage
And even then, the best anonymity is to just pretend to be somebody else, proxy through their home internet with stolen cookies and same browser version, using the same laptop model as them. Many 2nd-hand laptop and phone shops forget to wipe the previous owners data, or will 'forget' for a few extra dollars.
We need a way to make the entire privacy invasion business not profitable.