Your smartphone tracks your location, listens to your conversations, and sells your intimate moments to data brokers.
The law pretends to regulate this, but lobbyists write the rules and enforcement is a joke.
Encryption apps aren’t enough when the hardware itself is designed to betray you.
The phone is a spy device marketed as a lifestyle accessory.
We need radical technical solutions, not incremental privacy policies that change nothing.
The surveillance economy depends on your ignorance and inaction.
Break the chain: use open hardware, de-Googled Android, or build your own tools.
#privacy #surveillance #digitalrights #antitrust
How much of your life are you willing to sell for a slightly more convenient map app?
Cell phones started to become popular while I was in college. I still have not used one. I have a dumb phone for businesses and institutions that absolutely must call for whatever reason. Everything else can be easily handled on my computer.
Lyft/uber, airlines, hotels? Its nearly impossible to use any of those without a smartphone. Or its a huge hinderance.
I’m convinced most of the people on this instance don’t leave their basements !
Huh? I’ve flown and booked hotels recently and you absolutely do not need a smart phone for that.
Sure, but youll be the one gramps running through the airport with your paper ticket because you didnt see your gate change on the airport TV and you’re late. On the phone app, the gate changes alert you immediately.
There’s also no way they’ll have printed tickets anymore in ~5 years . i havent seen someone use a paper ticket in a very long time, and if I do, they’re 85 year olds who can barely walk. (Related note, my younger friend was absolutely baffled I still write checks. They’re 26 and never wrote a check in their life).
The normies dictate the market. There’s zero way I’d convince my SO or any family member to get a phone that doesnt support flight apps and hotel check in apps. Especially because hotel check in apps can remotely unlock your door with no key, so you dont have to talk to anyone at 3 am when you get there (a lot of people like that).
Except phones get dropped and break. Paper tickets aren’t going anywhere.
Everyone has cars where I live. I’ve never needed a smartphone for a hotel. That sounds like utter nonsense.
And you’re right, I haven’t flown in decades, nor do I have any desire to, since it sounds like a nightmare.
How do you get around 2FA? I was able to stay off of phones for so long, but the standard 2FA implementation has made it impossible.
I’ve never been forced to use 2FA except on GitHub. I just ditched it and went to Codeberg.
Ah, lucky. All the banks around me seem to require it now. My kingdom for an independent authenticator they’d accept!