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Seems like a good time not to have a phone made by a company whose profits mainly come from selling you data. oH BUt It'S NoT a waLLeD GArdEn!1 ffs.
by chadlavi 7y ago
Seems like a good time not to have a phone made by a company whose profits mainly come from selling you data.
oH BUt It'S NoT a waLLeD GArdEn!1
ffs.
- ASalazarMX 7y agoI use iOS, but the iron grip Apple has on its walled garden puts advanced users at great disadvantage. You want a privacy-friendly browser like Firefox? No, you are only allowed to use a Firefox skin on good old Safari instead. You want local ad/tracker blocking? No way, you are allowed to use a VPN instead, and hope it doesn't sell your data too. You want to jailbreak and stroll outside the corral? Better hope iOS keeps having zero-days, because there's no official way, and Apple actively works against the unofficial way.
- r3ll 7y agoCould you roll your own vpn to say your home where you have a a rpi set up as a pihole and your own adblocking dns like you could on android? (Common roll your own VPN's like Wireguard or OpenVPN)
- ASalazarMX 7y agoThat is exactly my point, these are not solutions, but workarounds we end up with. A sensible approach would be a local blocklist, which would save not only battery and bandwidth, but all the material resources needed for the workarounds. I understand Apple will never implement this because ads and a captive audience are a crucial part of their business model; I just resent that Apple actively blocks people that want to implement this themselves.