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IMO: if you don't treat your phone like another PC and run postmarketOS (or similar) than you shouldn't use a "smartphone." Almost everything in the iOS and An
by swiley 6y ago
IMO: if you don't treat your phone like another PC and run postmarketOS (or similar) than you shouldn't use a "smartphone."
Almost everything in the iOS and Android ecosystems is pathologically malicious.
- bootlooped 6y agoSo that means that 99% of the population should not use a smartphone. Compare the downsides of that with the intangible benefit of more privacy.
- swiley 6y agoThese things don't just invade your privacy though. Entier UIs are built around making you behave in ways the vendor wants or looking at ads (and absolutely nothing else) where the vendor rents the ability to manipulate their users behavior en mass. If it were just privacy you would have a point but it was never about privacy, that's just much easier to measure and talk about because it's something most people have been talking about since the 80s/90s when strong cryptography became available to the average computer user.