It’s not science that’s destroying society - its the misuse of science and worse, greed that has a veneer of science or rather, $cience.
It’s the usual story of capitalism, oligarchy and big corp ruining everything for everyone but themselves.
Tell me you don’t understand GrapheneOS without telling me you don’t understand GrapheneOS.
This typed from a GrapheneOS phone that works just great, including the UI (breath of fresh simple air, no clutter, no crap, no AI).
And I’m happily using my phone knowing that not a single thing is spying on me or data mining and everything on my phone is there by my choice. And even happier that there’s not a damn thing Google can do about it.
Yes, you are wrong.
I recently switched from Enpass to Bitwarden and as a result decided that, while I was at it, I would delete accounts I don’t use anymore. Oh boy, some were incredibly difficult to delete. Some would only anonymise data and remove login access. And one outright refused to delete my account. Unfortunately New Zealand privacy law only covers accessing and changing personal information so I’m shit out of luck with threatening anything legal to force that company to remove my account. One company (Klarna) has taken months to respond and since stopped replying to my request to delete and I haven’t been able to find a way to escalate my request :/
Likely from now on I will check account deletion policies before making an account and it will be a hard pass if they don’t allow account deletion.
The problem is its closed source and often difficult for the average user to tell what is going out. All you can do is Do Not Trust.
Drip. Don’t give companies menstrual data at all ☺️
I’m typing this via GrapheneOS and I don’t at all feel like I’m living 10 years in the past lol.
Even if I was, at least the internet would be a less shitty place than it is now, there would be almost no LLM/AI crap, I wouldn’t constantly have to be as vigilant against big corps datamining my privacy as much as I am now… Actually, 2015 was a pretty decent time compared to now. Got a time machine?
My main point is
Android also runs Google play services
is incorrect as a general statement about Android. I used GrapheneOS as an example but there are plenty of other Android ROMs that also don’t come with Google Play Services or any Google at all.
GrapheneOS
New Zealand still uses SMS predominantly.
I wish I could use Matrix on my phone without it eating my battery 🫤
I essentially did this with Facebook. People still fucking contact me on Messenger.
I’m am ex web dev/des and still maintain some websites for non-profits. I think you underestimate the human stupidity factor. I already have to front an infuriating level of stupid questions and problems that people have caused themselves by not following the most simple of directions. Do I like JavaScript? No. Do I wish I could completely ditch it? 100%. But people are stupid. And without it’s use, I would be handling even more CS than I am now. The average person expects a website to act a certain way and without that they lose their minds.
This is such an underrated comment for such an important point.
And Obtainium for open source apps. I use Aurora only for apps I can’t get via Obtainium.
Replying to this excellent comment on a refurbed (no money to Google) Pixel 7 with GrapheneOS.
Setup was definitely more complex than a spyware android phone (I went from a Samsung Galaxy) but once its set up, it just works and there’s no way I’d go back to anything else.
Its not just about us using Linux though - it’s also users on the other end that were interacting with. If I handle sensitive information, use encryption and disappearing messages and what have you, that doesn’t mean squat if I have to send some sensitive information to someone using insecure email and Recall. Microsoft, Google and whatever other gods awful privacy invading service and companies the person on the other end now have that data.
And a lot of people just don’t even think about this stuff. They could be the type of person who will promise yo keep your secrets or sensitive stuff and actually do that, but keeping that away from privacy invading companies isn’t even on their radar.
I have a Google Pixel with Graphene OS and I only install bare minimum of apps on it. I’ve never used Temu and don’t have an account. So not asking for myself 🙂 But I know many family members who have the most frustratingly ad ridden, notification nagging and invasive apps known to humankind - was asking to help them debloat, improve their privacy and free up some of their time and sanity.
It’s a shame there’s no list of those thousands of apps that take screenshots. While its not all apps, it would have still been a handy reference.
Do you know where in Exodus you can see if an app takes screenshots? Looking through the permissions of two of the most invasive apps I could think of off the top of my head (Facebook, Google, Temu, Instagram, some popular mobile games) I couldn’t find any permissions specifically related to screenshot. If most apps tested are taking screenshots, I would have thought it would be easy to see :/
Unfortunately you likely still have a shadow account :(