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This sort of disgusting privacy intrusion plus the rising costs of smartphones and their associated data plans have me thinking that eventually we'll just reach
by darrmit 9y ago
This sort of disgusting privacy intrusion plus the rising costs of smartphones and their associated data plans have me thinking that eventually we'll just reach a breaking point where people choose to go back to dumbphones. I'm already nearly at that point myself.
- chronic62a 9y ago> I'm already nearly at that point myself. As another data point, I don't care at all, about their data collection. They can invade my privacy all they want and I will continue to buy the latest iPhone for myself and my family.
- Karunamon 9y agoDepends on who "we" is. A point that political advocates (privacy, open source, anything really) tend to forget is that politics isn't even on most people's radar when making decisions about what widget to use. Doubly so when that political stance doesn't have any tangible impact on their lives. ("Google tracks you for ads!" "Okay, and?") The number of people willing to forego a smartphone because of data collection is statistically insignificant. Personally, I'm not bothered enough by Google's business plan to go through contortions, making my life more annoying just to avoid some nebulous, unrealistic dystopian hypothetical.
- SN76477 9y agoyep.