What You Need (to Buy)

This should be good for 4 people, maybe more. Or you’ll have some leftovers the next day :)

• 1 kilogram of onions
• 0.5 kilograms of potatoes
• One pack of soy strips
• One or two cans of jackfruit in brine (optional - buy at an Asian market)
• Two packs of vegan landjäger (optional - buy at a health food store “Reformhaus”)
• 1 tube/glass of mustard
• 1 tube/glass of tomato paste
• 1 pack of soy cream
• Half a pack of vegan butter
• 5 bay leaves
• 1 pack of sweet paprika powder
• Half a pack of smoked paprika powder
• Half a pack of hot paprika powder
• More spices as you see fit (at least some pepper and salt, maybe even smoked salt)
• A loaf of bread (optional - but you’ll love it)

You might also need some oil and some soy sauce.

1. Cut the onions and put them into the largest pot you have with some butter (the more, the tastier).
2. Put a tablespoon of vegetable salt and two tablespoons of sweet paprika on the soy strips. Pour some boiling water over it and let it soak for 10 minutes.
3. Prepare a (spicy) marinade with some oil, the paprika powders, some soy sauce, and more spices if you want. When the soy strips are ready, mix them with the marinade and put everything in a frying pan (with enough butter). Start at a low temperature and gradually increase it until the soy is almost burned.
4. Open the jackfruit cans, squeeze them a bit, and shred them by hand until they have a fibrous texture. It’s best to toss the jackfruit in the remaining marinade.
5. Right before the soy is ready, add the mustard and the tomato paste to the onions, mix everything, and let it cook for around 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then add the jackfruit.
6. Add the soy and some boiling water to the pot until it’s nearly full. Then cut the potatoes and add them.
7. Shred the landjäger and add the soy cream. Let everything boil for an hour - the longer, the better.
8. Enjoy it with some bread; it’s even better the next day! :D

Let’s Get Started

Here comes the first sentence. And a second one. I’m just typing something that I think would sound good. Does it? I actually have no idea where to start; my head seems kind of empty today. Now, thinking about it, What do I even want to write about? What was my topic again? Fuck, I forgot. How can this be? I have already written a whole proposal about it. Anyway, keep calm and start from the top. I am interested in privacy, specifically, how we can measure it. For starters, I want to know how we can know what privacy behavior really is and how we can measure it. The last sentence does not really make sense. Ok, let’s try to start again. How does self-reported online privacy behavior compare to self-reported privacy behavior? No, fucked it up again - you just wrote two times the same stuff. Let’s start differently. Why do I want to use data donation? Because it’s an awesome way to get to really good behavioral data. Self-reports cannot do the same. Self-reported privacy behavior falls prey to a multitude of biases, e.g., recall bias or desirability biases. People just don’t really know what they do online. Or at least they don’t remember that information when they are asked about it in a different setting - so when they are not online. On a different note, they do not even know what kind of content they consumed or pushed five minutes after scrolling, liking, and commenting for an hour and a half. Maybe some remember, but most probably do not. I at least don’t, and I hate this. In comes data donation to the rescue. Compared to other approaches, it actually allows me to see what people do online without having to rely on their self-reports. While I could also use some kind of tracking, data donation seems to be better suited for this kind of behavior as participants do not have to go through the hussle of installing an app or some browser plugin. And then they know that they are being tracked, which is not ideal. And still, especially if we are interested in (privacy) settings, trackers or even APIs for that matter cannot give us the needed information. But data donation can. And that’s why I want to use it.

Prologe

I had heard about the Transforming Care Conference already in November last year but never really thought about attending right before the deadline for abstract submission in January. As I was still in my peak phase of writing together my thesis’ findings, I did not have much time to spend on the abstract and just wrote down what I had in mind. Coming as a surprise to me, it worked. My paper actually was accepted and would go to England to my first academic conference.