It's kinda dissapointing that the world is going from "we should care about our data or privacy" to "why/what's the point".

Giving up on this also means privacy focused software is going to become more and more "not worth the effort" for devs.

Huge win for everyone who wants to manipulate you

They gonna buy my data anyways so...

Haha I never downloaded chrome.

Now google spies on me only through maps, youtube, email, my friends' email, and android. Also chromebooks if I am a highschooler.

Last one is compulsory. You can't deny using google products if you wanna graduate child.

Your turn, Captain Noposts!

Or sell you ads AND not have to pay for it, while also influencing us algorithmically directly. If that's even the case, that is, which, who even fucking knows anymore. And I'm not even sure we needed tiktok to be pissed at wrongdoings everywhere, including Chinese government wrongdoings. Honestly, tiktok's algorithm is better than basically any other algorithmic app right now, save for the fact that it obviously is getting very up to date information through my phone somehow.

You can very well fragment what each one knows, and keep certain ones from knowing more.

Google knows I use Android, but the phone I'm holding is running a custom rom without gapps on a private dns server I run over a private vpn that I host on the other side of the Earth.

But, I admit, I'm not as thorough as I should be, one login and a few comments without paying absolute attention to a VPN connection and the veil is pierced.

I could start over, only come here over layers upon layers of obfuscation, but I'm no serial killer, so, meh. At least they don't know what I'm doing all the time, 24/7, 365...

My ISP doesn't even know I'm downloading communism 🏴‍☠️

Only one of those entities could realistically deduce I'm making this post, and there's no reason for them to care. Not that I'm particularly relevant to Western governments anyway. ¡Hola!

But if China has your data, then it is bad. If the U.S government has your data then it's fine, right?

/s

Health apps scare me. Idfc where it's from.

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I was once working for a company that wanted to post pictures online. They had the option to opt out, so there is no picture or a blurr or whatever. I was the only one who had no picture and they didn't like that, they didn't ecpect that anyone would check that mark. They pressured me to have that picture there. I didn't even really care tbh, i just checked it because i could. They told me that i have puctures online anyway and it doesn't matter. I told them that if they find a single picture of me online, they could use that. I have no social media, no pictures online and nothing. They were quite disappointed

It seems like you got your taste of social media, decided you were essentially done with it and moved on.

I am just about in the same boat, I feel social media doesn't offer me much that I value, and so I have been looking elsewhere.

I never even signed up for Twitter.

The modern internet makes me want to live in a cave and grow moss.

Wow, I just read my own use bio. Exactly down to the T. Except still on OSX and I am using infuse instead of plex jelly fin. But all other use patterns are identical.

I’d say. I never posted on reddit though. Just a lurker. On lemmy, I post :)

I mean I'd rather China know everything about me than America, since as an American citizen, America is a much bigger threat.

But lets be honest, whether I get an iphone, samsung, or huawei, both countries are going to have all my data.

My gf had xiaomi once. Had to visit the doctors a lot before it cleared up.

Uninstalling that app was a game changer....so much better on browser with unblock origin running.

Check out revanced.app. You're welcome.