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I refuse to use any site that is not compatible with the “I don’t care about cookies” extension. If I see the popup or the site breaks, I’m out. Professionally, we decided to defer some app updates on several occasions when pushing an update required extra work to check some checkboxes in the extremely useless data & privacy mandatory sections in both app stores.
when I saw that despite my efforts, companies were still able to track, target and advertise to me, and in more ingenious ways than I could combat, I lost interest. not to say that privacy isn't important or that I don't take steps to maintain mine, but along the way I accepted a certain level of giving up privacy in order to have a sane life.
I refuse to use any site that is not compatible with the “I don’t care about cookies” extension. If I see the popup or the site breaks, I’m out. Professionally, we decided to defer some app updates on several occasions when pushing an update required extra work to check some checkboxes in the extremely useless data & privacy mandatory sections in both app stores.
wasn't "I don’t care about cookies" bought by Avast? they don't have great track record of respecting privacy
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Which begs the question: if the general public is not super interested in data privacy, is it still fair to call it very important?
Is it okay to steal from someone if they never notice?
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One of your choice felt odd to me, why choose iPhone over privacy focused forks of Android like Graphene?
Graphene has questionable dev choices, especially given the limited hardware options -- basically, Google hardware. I do not trust Google at all anymore. Their interests align directly against privacy.
The software is where their privacy invasions begin.
Upon further inspection, they're the only place to find something resembling secure hardware.
Just don't run their software or use their services.
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Privacy and closed source don't go hand in hand together unless you have a different opinion.
This is true in an ideal sense, but when it comes to phones, you have to look at the whole spectrum of the situation. Given you can sneak a SoC in a phone with backdoor access to everything, can you really ever make it secure? You need open source hardware along with software, and that just isn't where we are at. Apple is more aligned with privacy than other megacorps, so I trust their hardware more. I don't trust th…
Perhaps, but that's not one of them.
I left gmail for self-hosted email. I host a matrix server. I left reddit for Lemmy. I left Android for iPhone. These and many other decisions have been about increasing data privacy. In a sense, I stopped working for a corporation and pursued my own life for similar reasons. If others are telling me what to do, I am being limited, because I have found my own ideas to be better. Instead of being bitter about that, it…
Cool! I keep hearing that self-hosted email gets discriminated against these days, in terms of delivery rejection. Is that your experience, too?
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One of your choice felt odd to me, why choose iPhone over privacy focused forks of Android like Graphene?
Graphene has questionable dev choices, especially given the limited hardware options -- basically, Google hardware. I do not trust Google at all anymore. Their interests align directly against privacy.