they’re not doing it to get you to turn it back on, but your mom who you turned it off for. drives me mad how often I have to redisable privacy nightmares everytime my mom asks me to help her with her phone.

VPN + DeGoogled Privacy Android ROM would be the most practical. That way you should br free from most if not all cross device tracking.

In general having a seperate device for that stuff makes total sense.

Get some sort of device that is compatible with CalyxOS or GrapheneOS, like an older Pixel

not sure what would be best to handle verification.

You also have to be careful to use totally new accounts for everything on this new device, different number, different email, different device, different sim etc

the only thing that can really stop it IMO is mainstreaming decentralized social media and messaging services.

You’d need to effectively replace Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Whatsapp etc… The only thing that totally keeps us from 1984 is that all these platforms for now have decided to be relatively free and impartial (compared to how bad it could be). But that could change at any time if the powers that be decide to on a whim. They could completely ban all privacy, pacificsm or any kind of political opposition tomorrow.

why do they even care? they get to sell more power

some linux users dream of having their grandma run linux so they never have to look at windows or macos ever again

bad chart

yeah it will with that attitude

lmao that’s crazy cynical. manifesting a divorce

LibreWolf or Brave. I use Brave personally, it’s okay

I don’t know, feddit.nl is pretty chill. I always see everything and barely anything objectable

They should make an exception for cyberpunk games, for added immersion

fossify gallery is pretty nice

That’s why I avoid wrestlers

the tragedy of frame gen. works the worst when you need it the most.

Suspicious lack of Qubes. Who do you work for??? the CIA? China? The Rwandan National Intelligence and Security Agency?

let’s just rebrand instances to superleddits and communities to subleddits 🤣

“Reddit but you can block the part that annoys you”

he pasta way while he was there

does anyone know why this sudden uptick?

I don’t understand how everyone can be so blind to the surveillance that already exists.

Literally all your communications or purchase or browsing history, 90% of people’s photos and contacts, everything you ever say near your phone/smart devices, your health data with devices like fitbit, cm resolution spy satelites, 4D maps of the entire globe being created via services like Pokemon Go, phones create and store in the cloud high resolution 3D maps of your face, mesh networked devices like Alexa now surveil without you even having internet access, your home and your exact location down to a meter are already being live spied on. Not to mention full remote access to all your devices.

Sometimes with a thin veneer of privacy on top of it, like Apple pretends to have.

Basically the only part of you that the surveillance state doesn’t constantly surveil already is your butthole.

Even avoiding just 10% of this surveillance in your daily life is almost impossible.