• Freakazoid@lemmy.ml
    2 months

    Let’s hope the EU prevents this from happening. We should be able to access every site we wish without Google’s permission.

    • eleitl@lemmy.zip
      2 months

      The EU is busily building the Fourth Reich, so don’t expect help from there.

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2 months

        LOL, whatever you’re taking, stop, it’s doing your brain in! :D

        • Narri N. (they/them)@lemmy.ml
          2 months

          The ongoing battle against online privacy is a symptom of capitalism, the EU is a capitalist state. The only thing the EU would ever do against US-based capitalism is to gobble up those capital gains for themselves. It doesn’t matter if it happes or not, the privacy-issues for end-users would never be alleviated by the EU.

          • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
            2 months

            From what you’re saying, they would’ve already introduced all those capitalist methods of control the first time around.

            Which they didn’t.

            What gives?

            Also: the EU is literally incapable of “gobbling up capital gains for themselves” because “themselves” doesn’t exist in this context - the EU is not a “State”. The member-states might (and some do).

    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 months

      What do you plan to do? Dumbphone? No phone? Break glass in case of emergency phone in a faraday pouch?

      I’m considering a break-glass dumbphone in a faraday pouch. I REALLY fucking hate location tracking. I’d keep it seperate from my IRL ID. Prob is, it’s hard. Screw up once, big data pounces. One call tied to your name in any way. One friend puts it in their contacts. One time to forget the pouch and there’s a location ping at your residence. Not to mention the difficulty of even buying it and setting up a plan. Ugh :(

      • belunos@lemmus.orgEnglish
        2 months

        I’m a teams app for dumb phones away from getting off smart phones. I’m fiddy and have to use my readers to even see my phone, so I’ve slowly stopped using it for much outside of random apps for appliances. I can get an ipad for that, though. I’m also a privacy advocate, but I’ve made peace with the fact that ship has pretty much sailed

  • Geodes & Gems@lemmy.ml
    2 months

    Smartphones are such an utter wretch nowadays, & I’m not even sure if there was a time they weren’t. I don’t get the appeal of a smartphone, they do everything a dumbphone does but worse, more expensive & with an unremovable thick layer of scum, yeah a smartphone has some of the features of a laptop or desktop but who needs that baked into their phone for every moment?

    People are trying so hard to fix smartphones (even by giving money to the least privacy respecting companies ever by buying Google phones) when they can get a dumbphone and be rid of those problems in the first place. Well that’s my opinion at least, I think it might be a bit extreme.