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If that’s genuinely how you feel, you’re best off not carrying any sort of mobile phone at all. (Or at the very least, keep yours in a faraday bag until you ne

• saurik 6y ago
  FWIW, it is also how I feel, and is similar to my thoughts on microphones and location logging and pretty much everything surrounding social networks; I still use iPhones and Facebook as the alternatives--not for any legitimate reason correlated with this property (it isn't a tradeoff or anything)--are much less effective due to vertical supply chain monopolization and network effects from the major oligopolies in hardware and service providers which would make me less effective, ironically, at my attempts to educate people about the downsides of this technology and achieve regulation on its usage and deployment... to me the real question is why you _don't_ think this is a problem :(.
  • JKCalhoun 6y ago
    > I still use iPhones and Facebook iPhones I think you can legitimately assume are at least trying to allow you control of your privacy. But Facebook? Not only are they actively trying to scrape your personal data, they're also so easy to drop entirely.
• arminiusreturns 6y ago
  Fun fact, its not that hard to block those sensors and still use the phone... This sort of servile apathy is pathetic to me.
  • arminiusreturns 6y ago
    Its too late to delete but I apologize, though the comment wasn't intended as a personal attack and was more intended as a general lament, rereading it didn't sound like that. I should have taken the opportunity to get into the issues I have with the prevalence of this attitude more in depth. Sorry.