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Smartphones, mobile apps, mobile networks, and WiFi stopped being your friends around 2015-2016. Now it's just a matter of how much data can be harvested from d
by lifestyleguru 6mo ago
Smartphones, mobile apps, mobile networks, and WiFi stopped being your friends around 2015-2016. Now it's just a matter of how much data can be harvested from device sensors in real time until reaching a pain point which doesn't exist.
- mystraline 6mo agoYep. And the FLOSS/Linux phone hardware attempts have frankly sucked. I was hoping that my PinePhone Pro would actually be usable. But no, its a PineDoorstop. Proper Linux would be a great 3rd choice. But yeah. We've got a duopoly and not much we can do about it.
- 9991 6mo agoGrapheneOS is a proper Linux. The hardware isn't open, but otherwise it's quite nice and clearly designed for the end-user's benefit, in stark contrast to the more widely-adopted alternative mobile OSes.
- reorder9695 6mo agoIf anyone's interested in this the book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is rather revealing of the sheer scale of this.
- Cider9986 6mo agoWiFi isn't that bad, we have mac address randomization[1] and VPNs. Cellular is obscenely bad, though. [1] https://grapheneos.org/usage#wifi-privacy https://grapheneos.org/usage#wifi-privacy