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Eventually we get to the point we let nothing near the internet!
by aqueueaqueue 2y ago
Eventually we get to the point we let nothing near the internet!
- lukan 2y agoGood luck with soldered on LTE modems.
- notpushkin 2y agoCool, a printer and a free unlimited SIM card!
- hhjj 2y agoUntil they use eSIM, and then we will have to tinfoil all of our electronics.
- hkt 2y agoOr, cheaper electronics emerge that don't include any independent rogue networking capability!
- FredPret 2y agoHardware that is not subsidized by spying on the consumer will be more expensive
- account42 2y agoAll evidence points to the spying profits to not be returned to the user via lower prices.
- notpushkin 2y agoYeah, when everybody is spying why compete on the price?
- gessha 2y ago> cheaper electronics > don't include any independent rogue networking capability Everybody and their broligarch mom wants to make these two qualities incompatible.
- HenryBemis 2y agoAnd why should we? It should all be "allow" and not "block". Machine should be serving _us_ the buyers/users. I could never understand why my Windows Explorer (back in the ZoneAlarm days) were speaking to Microsoft when I was searching for my FileName.doc inside my C: Drive. I could understand the Word or Excel accessing when I need "Help" (I assume online help file was more frequently updated). No! Naughty developers and naughty businesses. My machines should leave my 127.0.01 when I want for MY uses and MY needs and MY convenience. For vast majority of home users the only app that needs to 'get out' is their browser and their "windows udpate". Everything else is just tracking.
- thih9 2y ago> Machine should be serving _us_ the buyers/users. Yes. But every now and then consumers get a tempting offer and trade a bit of their freedom for lower price, more comfort, more prestige, or something else. I.e. in practice buyers don’t mind that much and likely also don’t understand the difference and the consequences that well.
- dietr1ch 2y agoConsumers don't get told prices are down because of privacy going away. Prices going down on technology is the norm, so it's not even suspicious.
- toofy 2y ago> … and likely also don’t understand the difference and the consequences that well. this could be a very good argument to explain why so many have become skeptical of companies. we have example after example where companies take advantage of people. hearing my grandfathers generation go on about “the days when you could trust a company to be fair” i used to think they were seeing with rose-tinted glasses, but more and more im convinced we’re dealing something much more nefarious than that generation.
- FredPret 2y agoCompanies used to hire Pinkerton detectives to put down strikes and make employees use company stores. Behaviour has improved for various reasons. All we’re seeing now is that people’s technological surface area is expanding from zero to infinity so there are lots of new little cracks and edge cases society still has to sort out.
- zecg 2y agoI have doubled my battery life on Moto Edge with Rethink DNS, blocking everything per app. There's so much junk I don't want to phone home that tries 50 times a day.
- aqueueaqueue 2y agoThis sort of solution appeals to me but I wonder what the trade-off is. I am now sending data about domains I visit and when to a different entity not my ISP, how do I trust them more?
- zecg 2y agoYou don't have to use any DNS features, Rethink will happily let you set your DNS resolvers to whatever you like, you can just use it as an on-device VPN that allows you to block or isolate everything per app or per connection.