The Hairdresser Analogy

Hey HN,

I've been getting very positive responses on this short essay / thought experiment on privacy. Very curious what the HN crowd thinks.

I'm Dutch and in The Netherlands WhatsApp is ubiquitous, it's hard to live without it. I live in Switzerland, and here it's similar (although not as bad).

It disgusts me how FB/WA seem to keep pushing the limit on what they collect on us, but until now I didn't think it was viable to convince my friends and family to move to another platform.

Now I think there are many platforms that offer better guarantees and that work according to healthier incentives than WhatsApp. This essay was to help convince my friends of this.