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Fuck society. Grr, I don't like how much we're expected to have phones. It's not just the electronic though, but the number attached to it as well.
I'm phoneless as a stand against canadian telecom companies and wow I'm basically a second-class citizen. Almost any service becomes inaccessible.
Heavens forbid I care about my own privacy and get a vpn. Now I'm locked out of even MORE services that want to ID check me with my phone.
Just let me have what I seek ๐ญ there's too many steps to these services now
auuuugh rant done ty.
It's very interesting to see how primitive services such as government's services requires citizens to have a phone. So eventually you can literally not be a citizen without a phone.
The life I experience is an invisible struggle, but it's partially self-induced. I wonder how others are fairing, especially those who didn't have the privilege of choice.
Then again, my city's vocal majority want to wipe the board clean of homeless so maybe my empathy is misplaced.
You literally have what you seek. You want to be an island, and you are one.
No they don't; they just said they're taking a stand against the phone company.
The reasoning behind it is concern for their privacy though.
That's incorrect, my appologies for the confusion.
My privacy concerns are a seperate issue that causes additional turmoil. Most services throw a ton of 2fa at you once they see the vpn, typically involving some means of identifying you with a phone number. Discord is the most common place I run into. That's a lot of stuff I'm missing out on just with one service.
I'm standing against telecoms because they provide terrible service for rediculous prices. I'm especially aware of what they can offer as I used to work in Bell's loyalty department (lasted a month LOL). By paying for shitty phone services, I'm accepting it. I'd rather search for an alternative.
I mean, who wouldn't want internet access anywhere they want in their city?
I can understand your need for privacy, even though I don't go to similar lengths myself. That being said, I always prefer the way forward instead of shutting new technology out. I don't have the answer to how that would translate to your situation specifically, but a privacy minded android or linux os with a prepaid sim card could go a long way.
It shouldn't be a need.
I do agree. I'm behind in terms of privacy protection, but most of my energy is on escaping some life struggles at the moment. I'm fairly aware of where to find what I seek, but it'll take a lot to collect all that information and implement it. Story of our lives though, eh? ;P
I've looked into prepaids, but it goes against my desire to support our telecoms. I looked into VOIPs as well, but most services block them because again, they need to identify YOU and I refuse to accept it, QoL be damned.
I'm currently thinking about shadowing off someone else's identity. Solves a lot of my problems, but I'd like to figure alternatives and potential reprecussions before I go bumming off my friends.
If I can't get a custom rom and use xprivacy and adblocking on my personal phone, I will instead carry a fucking ham radio for emergencies. I'm sick and tired of tech corporations but also society in general walking all over people, profiting from it and generally running things further into the ground at every chance they get.
Ahahaha ham radio future~ just you wait until everyone switches and it becomes profitable to have AI listening in. The oh-so-likely future. ;p