Your smartphone tracks your location, listens to your conversations, and sells your intimate moments to data brokers.

The law pretends to regulate this, but lobbyists write the rules and enforcement is a joke.

Encryption apps aren’t enough when the hardware itself is designed to betray you.

The phone is a spy device marketed as a lifestyle accessory.

We need radical technical solutions, not incremental privacy policies that change nothing.

The surveillance economy depends on your ignorance and inaction.

Break the chain: use open hardware, de-Googled Android, or build your own tools.

#privacy #surveillance #digitalrights #antitrust

How much of your life are you willing to sell for a slightly more convenient map app?

  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
    18·
    17 hours ago

    Some stuff that you can use are

    • AdNauseam, visually blocks ads but under the hood clicks on them, nuking the usefulness of ad trackers

    • TrackMeNot, spams queries on search engines, clicks some links here and there, all in the background. Works perfectly with AdNauseam, nuking both ad & search profiling

    Then there is this experimental (HARPO: Learning to Subvert Online Behavioral Advertising) paper on using ML to obfuscate online tracking, it’s a research paper so my understanding is limited to the excerpt 😅 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.05792

    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      visually blocks ads but under the hood clicks on them

      I get where they’re coming from on the idea. But the problem I have… it would still run all the fingerprnting scripts and other shit. Sure it makes some bad data added to the good… but still plugs me into huge adware ecosystems. It leaves such a bad taste in my mouth, if any of their shit hits my comp.

      I really mostly want to not be part of any of that shit. 🤮 Just leave me alone, surveilance companies, thank you.