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Firefox and uBlock Origin is a convenient and effective first line of defense. My personal concern is the smartphone. Apple concerns me less than Google, but n
by javajosh 5y ago
Firefox and uBlock Origin is a convenient and effective first line of defense.
My personal concern is the smartphone. Apple concerns me less than Google, but not by much. Android has the better potential for full, verifiable independence-from-the-Mothership (via LineageOS, GrapheneOS, F-Droid, ...) but it all feels early, amateurish, almost like an ambitious project that advances only when capable strangers volunteer their spare time.
- fsflover 5y agoSee also GNU/Linux smartphones, Librem 5 and Pinephone.
- packetlost 5y ago> but it all feels early, amateurish, almost like an ambitious project that advances only when capable strangers volunteer their spare time Because that's literally what those projects are.
- javajosh 5y agoIf only I had known that when I wrote my post, and used the opportunity to make a dry joke out of it by imitating someone who is guessing an answer they know to be true! It's the end of the weekend and I want to go so deep I don't even know if I'm being sarcastic anymore.
- tsol 5y agoFiltering apps like blokada are a start, I would presume