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I feel like this comes from a good place, but a lot of it seems self-inflicted and/or over-dramatized. Most privacy-conscious folks have been saying from day o
by kradeelav 8y ago
I feel like this comes from a good place, but a lot of it seems self-inflicted and/or over-dramatized. Most privacy-conscious folks have been saying from day one that smartphones and smart-homes are a bad idea in that regard. Dumb-phones exist. Printing directions out is ... not that hard. Etc.
Overall, though, I am glad this is becoming more of a thing in terms of mass appeal. Hopefully the pendulum will swing the other way to a greater awareness of shiny-new-tech-that-comes-with-strings.
- kodablah 8y ago> I feel like this comes from a good place, but a lot of it seems self-inflicted and/or over-dramatized. Agreed, and too absolutist. You can take a reasonable stance without upending your life. So you can't get away from maps integration in apps, that's ok, still using the competition helps. Same with browser choice and others. I can decry all the plastic waste and still type on a keyboard with plastic parts.
- m4x 8y agoTaking an absolutist stance is the point of the authors experiment. You wouldn't do this in practice if you were just trying to improve your privacy, but in an experiment to see just how far Google's reach extends it makes sense to block everything and see what unexpected 3rd party services also fail - such as Uber or Dropbox