Your fears about the smartphone are not unfounded. If you take a regular smartphone with you as you go about your day, it will collect a ridiculous amount of data against you. Even without Internet it will cache the data and transmit it once it has signal. Only way to stop it is to install a custom ROM.

Keep in mind that even a dumb phone can track you. If it’s connected to the cell tower then the telecom companies know your location and may share that with others. Also, calls and texts are not encrypted on a dumb phone and are probably being intercepted.

See if you can trade in your new cell phone for a Google Pixel and install GrapheneOS. That is currently the best privacy ROM. You can use this like a dumb phone and it will track you no more than a dumb phone could. To prevent tracking from cell towers, you can put it in airplane mode and use messaging apps over WiFi.

Anyone that wants my DNA can get it by grabbing a discarded cigarette butt.

Stop smoking, that is bad for your health no matter what your DNA profile says

There was a bug in vanilla that leaked your master password to other programs. XC was not affected.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-24055

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Average Lemmy user

My nose is clear, thanks for making me feel gratitude

This is an example of British colonization.

It’s incredible how many people think the UK is better than the US when it clearly is not.

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I just downvoted your post.

FAQ

What does this mean?

The amount of karma (points) on your post and Lemmy account has decreased by one.

Why did you do this?

There are several reasons I may deem a post to be unworthy of positive or neutral karma. These include, but are not limited to:

• Rudeness towards other Lemmings,

• Spreading incorrect information

Am I banned from the Lemmy?

No - not yet. But you should refrain from making posts like this in the future. Otherwise I will be forced to issue an additional downvote, which may put your commenting and posting privileges in jeopardy.

I don’t believe my post deserved a downvote. Can you un-downvote it?

Sure, mistakes happen. But only in exceedingly rare circumstances will I undo a downvote. If you would like to issue an appeal, shoot me a private message explaining what I got wrong. I tend to respond to Lemmy PMs within several minutes. Do note, however, that over 99.9% of downvote appeals are rejected, and yours is likely no exception.

How can I prevent this from happening in the future?

Accept the downvote and move on. But learn from this mistake: your behavior will not be tolerated on Lemmy. I will continue to issue downvotes until you improve your conduct. Remember: Lemmy is privilege, not a right.

If I were to provide an example, it would probably incite a flame war right here

Finally a good response. Thanks for posting

Usually dark patterns are viewed as design patterns that implicitly coerce or deceive the user. As opposed to a banner that explicitly, verbally tells the user to do something.

This is not a dark pattern, it’s just coersion

On Android, apps can read information from each other as long as both apps consent. If these apps are using the same libraries to connect to Instagram then that library may be enabling sharing data between the two apps.

I assume the situation is similar on iOS.

Here are a set of trollface images I made.

The girl is socially awkward and assumes he means to go on a walk later, instead of right now.