I don’t trust any of them, and I don’t trust Motorola.
My next phone will be an Iphone, treated like an appliance; no more info given than necessary to order a pizza, call my boss, navigate this dystopian wasteland, and see how much fiat is in my wageslave account.
Time to kick it like it’s 2007 and rock a laptop 24/7.
5 years later
“What music? It was all a bluff.”
Yeah he’s mid thirties, has a cat, and mostly plays roguelikes and soulslike games.
really narrowing the field, aren’t we?
The guy with the GOS Pixel 8 is the most secure guy in the room. He’s also being frisked in the corner and being driven to a 2nd location.
toss
Next!
You, yes you, scrolling.
Here.
XMPP
I see you.
In your defense, they aren’t tracking your every move in pseudo-real time and tracking every app they can get their code into inside your phone.
but dude needs to buy a lawnmower and a tv used every now and then, so the bookmark stays. That shit isn’t on my phone tho.
Also wearing them identifies you as “a person wearing anti-spyware” glasses.
It’s like not having a Facebook account, your shadow shows everyone you aren’t, leaving the only person you could be.
One could make a decent bit of $ on “I do not consent” knitted balaclavas on Etsy.
Buji
Frou Frou
Not if you think about it longer than two minutes.
Apple has to protect their IP, brand, their own information and their reputation. My identity and professional information is safe behind an iPhone, because they have to be for themselves.
My actual friends, actual social media activity, anarchism, socialist views, contacts, lol, even any discussion had here will never see that screen, no xmpp client, no tor, no yggdrasil, so, who cares what I order pizza and reserve parking spots with?