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If privacy is being free of observation, what is being free of distraction? #Focus, #mindfulness?

We have "privacy advocates" and "infosec fans" but what term binds those in the fight against adverts, addictive sidebars, irritating popups?

davidak 6 Monate her •

my tipp: have the smartphone always set to silent and don't even install social media apps. use them on your computer at home

Doug Webb 6 Monate her •

absolutely!

In that direction: I found out some weeks ago that I can schedule "do not disturb" to be on pretty much 24 hours a day.

This is important for me, because I switch my phone off a lot and android just remembers the last status. I would regularly forget to turn on "do not disturb" before switching my phone off, leading to a tense race to enable it ASAP whenever I would switch my phone on! No more.

davidak 6 Monate her •

there are some activist groups against adverts in public spaces, like @hhwerbefrei and @werbefrei.

but i agree the topic needs more attention!

@hhwerbefrei @werbefrei

Ben Zanin 6 Monate her •

in a way I think this touches on a topic I first read about in the early 90s in a Scientific American article by Mark Weiser¹. The article was informed speculation about how computers could become ubiquitous, but Weiser's focus soon shifted to how being surrounded by computers would make _being calm_ the challenge to tackle²³.

Ubicomp and "calm computing" seem to be out of fashion now though.

¹: https://calmtech.com/papers/computer-for-the-21st-century

²: https://calmtech.com/papers/designing-calm-technology

³: https://calmtech.com/papers/

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