> If you want to have a standard iPhone/Samsung device, like using Google Maps, or use social media in any form on your devices, you've lost. I totally disagre

> If you want to have a standard iPhone/Samsung device, like using Google Maps, or use social media in any form on your devices, you've lost. I totally disagree with this point. I went "dim." A few years ago (turned off all of Google except gmail), don't use any social media, route my (and any visitors on my home networks) traffic through Cloudflare, etc...but almost nothing worked. There wasn't a CAPTCHA that I could get through, because every HTTP request seemed to be coming from a different source. I've been slowly and cautiously turning the lights back on, and the experience has been great. YouTube only recommends shit I actually want because it mostly knows only the things I've explicitly saved into my playlists (history is turned off...I don't have privacy there or with what I'm watching, but the experience is dramatically improved, even if I do occasionally fall for some clickbait). I can highly recommend going dim. You can objectively say that you don't actually have privacy, but you can be dark enough that the capital surveillance network just doesn't bother with you.