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Mobile is all about surveillance as near as I can see. The whole purpose of it is to track users.
by api 7y ago
Mobile is all about surveillance as near as I can see. The whole purpose of it is to track users.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoHow else should a telescreen function?
- BurningFrog 7y agoThere were mobile phones decades before any of this existed.
- krageon 7y agoAnd to the extent that this was practical, they have always been used for surveillance.
- api 7y agoYeah I guess people carrying around transmitters is too easy to exploit for surveillance and it's just irresistible.
- BurningFrog 7y agoMaybe I'm splitting hairs, but that's definitely not their primary purpose, which is what I think OP was saying. Sure, once they exist, there are secondary effects who are important in themselves.
- mrgreenfur 7y agoI think the push to apps was to get persistent tracking while offering the user the olive branch of new apis/better battery life/etc. The browser is a prophylactic against apps and their uncontrolled behaviors.