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By quitting Amazon, Do I have to boycott the websites hosted on AWS? If you are sane person who read all contracts you sign, you will never want to own a cellp

by ezoe 8y ago

By quitting Amazon, Do I have to boycott the websites hosted on AWS? If you are sane person who read all contracts you sign, you will never want to own a cellphone. At least, in my country(Japan), I can't find a cellphone and wireless network who honors my privacy. So naturally I don't owning a cellphone right now. But my daily living relies heavily on people who get their job done by using their cellphone. So my boycotting of cellphone means nothing since most of my private activities such as shopping indirectly handled by these untrustworthy cellphone and its network. If you really want to quit headline companies, You have to go living in a off-grid area, with self-contained life down to the farming or hunter-gathering, always hire a proxy person when you want modern civilized items because acquiring these items requires you to indirectly use Big 5.

budadre75 8y ago
Why don't you use apps that encrypt text and Skype or any other encrypted call apps instead?
beatgammit 8y ago
I'm really stoked about the Librem 5 project[1], which if you're not aware, is a privacy-centric cell phone based on Linux. It obviously doesn't solve the carrier issue, but it at least gets you away from Google and Apple. I actually rarely use my phone for calls or texts, so I'm considering getting an independent VoIP service that offers a phone number and just use data for everything. That way I only need a data contract and everything can go over a VPN, with the added convenience that I can get it to work on my computer as well. However, I have little room to talk since I'm all in with a big data collection company (I use Google Fi), but that's mostly because I figure Google already has my data anyway, and figured I might as well save some money vs my old plan if I'm going to be spied on anyway. I'm moving away from Google slowly, so as soon as that phone proves viable, I'll consider switching my service and getting that phone. [1] - https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

by ezoe 8y ago

budadre75 8y ago

Why don't you use apps that encrypt text and Skype or any other encrypted call apps instead?

beatgammit 8y ago

I'm really stoked about the Librem 5 project[1], which if you're not aware, is a privacy-centric cell phone based on Linux. It obviously doesn't solve the carrier issue, but it at least gets you away from Google and Apple. I actually rarely use my phone for calls or texts, so I'm considering getting an independent VoIP service that offers a phone number and just use data for everything. That way I only need a data contract and everything can go over a VPN, with the added convenience that I can get it to work on my computer as well. However, I have little room to talk since I'm all in with a big data collection company (I use Google Fi), but that's mostly because I figure Google already has my data anyway, and figured I might as well save some money vs my old plan if I'm going to be spied on anyway. I'm moving away from Google slowly, so as soon as that phone proves viable, I'll consider switching my service and getting that phone. [1] - https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/