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You only need to disconnect from news and scrollable apps. The rest is harmless.

• nobrains 4y ago
  WhatsApp is not harmless. Too many low priority messages noise. And there is no way to setup a system to only receive important actionable notifications only. Archive, Mute and other features are just not enough.
• kkfx 4y ago
  A couple of friend discover their simultaneous respective cheating each others following their respective macrospy devices, plus some extras like surveilling each others cars, putting connected gpses in some jackets etc... Oh, sure you might say "hey, both have done the same, both have decide to spy the partner, that's karma" but I think it's not so harmless for them. Anecdotes aside being surveilled is harmful in various ways for various reasons, we have heard of women's period trackers who spy their human users, perhaps to decide if she plan to get pregnant and fire her just before with some legit excuse, potential different insurances prices depending on how you drive, political surveillance, wrong accusations due to wrong phone reporting logs (various news happens from DK to USA, who also involve physical arrests, penal accusations etc) and so on. While there is nothing wrong in having a PERSONAL computer with us, have no practical control on it, who happen to be not much personal but instead a surveillance capitalism device paid by the surveilled Citizens instead of by those who want to spy on him, having more and more push to de facto mandate them because "you need a craphone to access you banks, recharge your car, ..." it's DEFINITIVELY harmful and the infinite scroll attention-eliciters drugs apps are just a mean to push such systems in the society.