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There's a huge difference between "if I use an iPhone, the US government can potentially find out where I am etc" and "if I use an Android phone, Google is acti
by danaris 4y ago
There's a huge difference between "if I use an iPhone, the US government can potentially find out where I am etc" and "if I use an Android phone, Google is actively mining every bit of data they can about me and everyone around me in order to monetize it to the greatest possible degree; if I use Facebook, they're doing the same; Amazon is manufacturing cameras that not only spy on you for Amazon themselves, but also hand over the camera data to the police without your consent"....
Do I really need to go on?
The kind of person whose threat model includes worrying about being targeted by governments is not the average person. Everyone is being targeted by ad behemoths like Google and Facebook, all the time, in every way they can possibly manage.