Will people start caring for their privacy if most of the links posted were tracking free?
The reason I am asking is because despite the amount of posts I posted and all the ways that I advocated for getting news from tracking free websites/ non-profits, people don’t seem to change.
I still see people posting links from people, the independent, CBS, Vox Media and other evil companies still being posted.
Will people on the long-term change or is it a lost cause?
You have to decide for yourself whether your efforts are worth it despite no visible effect. You don’t know whether your content may have affected one reader (or many more) who simply didn’t say anything.
I’ll personally never stop notifying people of tracker-free URLs, for example. The way I look at it is: I don’t care if they actually change or not. What I care about is that I ensure they are without excuse if they don’t change, because I served as the messenger and they heard the word, even if they reject it.
So at least I will have done my part, so no one can put it back on me and say I didn’t try. Putting the ball in their court is what matters; why would you change your behavior because of what others do/don’t do? That’d be one flimsy philosophy, right?
My family members had that same attitude of “you are not going to change the world on your own”. Which to I responded “well yes, but it is the same reason why I do not litter streets”