• TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    If you have sold your soul to Apple already, then that is not a problem. You may take this as offensive or factual, I do not care. Why? Because I use Android phones without a Google account. You may think, this person does not have a life, I do. But I also have a life. I use online groceries and use shopping sites through Firefox web browser. I have WhatsApp and Discord with lots of restrictions and a firewall with 400k+ domains blocked all the time.

    How much data you consider okay to give away to corpos is up to you. However, understand that once you give away this or that data about you, there is no way to return back to an option or time where nobody had that data about you.

    Yes, I am pretty anal about my privacy, security, anonymity and freedom. And I am shameless about it.

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      6 months ago

      LOL. Just trying to take a reasoned take to the situation bro. Every OS siphons user data Einstein. Yes even Linux (distros like Ubuntu do). A VPN won’t save you. It’s cute you think adding a lock on your room’s door will keep people out of your house.

      Good luck in your travels.

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        6 months ago

        I have written guides for smartphone hardening and Linux/Windows computing, among other things. This is my defense.

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            Every OS siphons user data Einstein. Yes even Linux (distros like Ubuntu do). A VPN won’t save you. It’s cute you think adding a lock on your room’s door will keep people out of your house.

            You have a whole bunch of weird takes not based in reality. My life is not a room but my house that I can lock and control. A VPN does not work that way. And every OS does not spy. Ubuntu does not either. Windows and MacOS do, and it is possible to despyware Windows.

            Also do you really think the travel comment is a successful gut punch? Try harder.