• Phantaloons@piefed.zip
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    15 hours ago

    Guess I’m not going to Youtube, then.

    I see a future where we have our mandated government ID shitphone for banking, corpo and government suchn’shit, and the laptop we access Anna’s, Yggdrasil and TOR with.

    and the days go by!

    Not exactly same as it ever was, but seems kinda 2007 to me. I doubt any Lemmy instance or i2p site will enforce Google’s QRcode spy-proxy.

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      5 hours ago

      My current GraphineOS phone will probably be my last smartphone. I’ll be moving to a dumb phone and a data hotspot connected to some type of cyberdeck. Will have that thing locked down, blocking known abusive companies like Google. Honestly could care less about using any service that touches them.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s not 2007. Devices are everywhere now, smartphones, TV’s etc. The social dimension (social pressure) and implications are very different now. Their power increases, amount of people caught in the loop is immense now. 2007 was all still fun and games.

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        10 hours ago

        Undoubtedly, and more still will be as corporate greed turns the internet into pay-per-view TV. We can’t help that.

        Make your decision for yourself for what to do with your connections and your own devices. You are in control of at least that, if nothing else.