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I certainly support the broad philosophy of the article, but for myself, I personally diverge a bit: I worry most about control: visiting a web site and having
by mark_l_watson 6y ago
I certainly support the broad philosophy of the article, but for myself, I personally diverge a bit:
I worry most about control: visiting a web site and having political and other ads being based on my browsing history and the treasure trove of my data that gets collected from credit card purchases, web activity, etc. Read Zuboff's surveillance capitalism book.
My Apple Watch and iPhone are mostly stock - I don't generally install 3rd party apps. I feel that the use of these devices is consistent with my dedication to fight back against surveillance capitalism.
I have blogged about this a lot: it is easy to take basic steps like: install the freedom.to app on all your devices and block social media and other time wasting sites for most of the day; use private browsing tabs, and frequently delete all cookies from all browsers you use on all devices; etc.
- m463 6y agoios and safari are incredibly "leaky" even if you do not install third-party apps. It would be nice if you could block network connections to the sites you disagree with. Or even find out if they were occurring. But you don't have any control over that - apple prevents it. At least macos has tcpdump and a firewall (for now)
- mark_l_watson 6y agoThe app available at https://freedom.to https://freedom.to supports blocking specific sites, with lots of flexibility. I have been using Freedom for four days, and I already see a positive effect in my day to day life.