Is it that they're privacy obsessed, or rather that most people have a passion for self destruction and exhibition?

If you think about it, the "dork" position was the one that was most normal, it's the status-quo. The people wanting to record in lockerooms and what not is not the status-quo. They win because most people are short-sighted, or even secretly love hurting themselves.

People don't care about privacy as long as a faceless corporation is doing the spying. People very much care if it has a plausible path to embarrassing or creepy situations involving actual people in your life. The chilling effect of ubiquitous phone cameras is well documented now this would amp it up by a 100. Many cool clubs already put stickers on phone cameras.

> People don't care about privacy as long as a faceless corporation is doing the spying.

This isn't true. Most everyone hates the fact they are being surveilled, but it is pervasive and people only can deal with so many complications in life.

Avoiding surveillance is not a decision or action, it is 1000 decisions and actions. Endless decisions and actions.

In my experience most people don't care at all. Even if you tell them about these topics, they find it weird, and tinfoil-hat adjacent. "If you have nothing to hide..." and "why would anyone care about my data in particular?"

I haven’t met anyone that isn’t very cynical about Meta and Google’s invasiveness.

But I believe you, that there may be many who don’t care.

> Many cool clubs already put stickers on phone cameras.

Can you elaborate on this?

Discussion a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111137 And longer ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352825

i'm as pessimistic as you are, but this is a pretty far leap from key-signing parties and the like.

"surveil me harder daddy"

I don't even care about the privacy aspect, the real problem is that VR glasses are for geeks. This is the kind of thing bullying was designed for.

I block a ton of ads in the name of privacy, and it seems to work out