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You actually can opt out of this. Personally I have not had a cell phone subscription in ~5 years and only use cash IRL.
by lrvick 2y ago
You actually can opt out of this. Personally I have not had a cell phone subscription in ~5 years and only use cash IRL.
- stavros 2y agoYou can actually opt out of this. Vote for politicians that want to regulate this into illegality.
- hulitu 2y ago> You can actually opt out of this. Vote for politicians that want to regulate this into illegality. The parliament has more than one politician and the advertising companies pay better. To opt out of it you need to put politicians in jail for conflict of interest and bribes and make campains against big tech (which could lead to your "suicide). Good luck with that.
- xico 2y agoIsn’t it what the EU is doing step by step to protect its citizens? Politicians should be jailed, both on the legislative and executive side, including Presidents, if they ignore the law. France is showing this once again with hopeful Marine Le Pen and former president Sarkozy, together with dozens of their associates.
- lclc 2y agoBut then the government couldn't track you anymore with the help of those companies.
- whobre 2y agoThere are no such politicians, and even if they were your vote does not matter.
- stavros 2y agoLaughs in GDPR
- tirant 2y agoInstead of making something illegal, that might be perfectly acceptable for someone else, why don’t take a personal decision to stop using those services altogether? It’s very tempting to impose our own personal truths to everybody else’s via politics, but that’s a quite close approach to totalitarianism.
- stavros 2y agoWhy would I stop using the services when I can use the law to keep using them without being tracked? > It’s very tempting to impose our own personal truths to everybody else’s via politics, but that’s a quite close approach to totalitarianism. "Regulation is totalitarianism" is a take that's too hot for me today.
- smt88 2y ago> Instead of making something illegal, that might be perfectly acceptable for someone else, why don’t take a personal decision to stop using those services altogether? Because there is no competition in the marketplace based on privacy, and if I want to use the services my friends/family/employer use, then I'm forced to give up my privacy. The free market has never and will never solve a problem like this. The only thing that ever has is regulation and this is a textbook case of what regulation is for.
- bix6 2y agoWhat do you do for work / how do you handle work or personal calls?
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- ghaff 2y agoI would not happily give up my smartphone but, speaking for myself I get very few personal calls, and latterly, don’t know the last time I had a work call on my phone.
- lrvick 2y agoI run a b2b infosec company. I ported my number to a voip provider so I can take any calls I want from home DECT phones or laptops. No need for notifications to follow me around or to carry a pocket distraction machine.
- gruez 2y agoYou don't even need to go off the grid to "opt out". Unless you granted location permissions to those apps, all the "locations" that the apps are sending are most certainly from geoip databases. That's technically a "location", but not what most people would think of when you say "everyone knows your location". Denying location permissions to random flashlight apps, disabling cross-app identifiers in ios/Android, and using a VPN will provide the same amount of anonymity.
- azinman2 2y agoI would never trust a public VPN personally.
- gruez 2y agoIt's either using a VPN, or having your real (ISP) IP address exposed. Self-hosting your VPN is actually worse, because you still are tunneling your traffic through a third party that could be monitoring it, and unlike with a public VPN you can't blend with other users.