Smartphones, mobile apps, mobile networks, and WiFi stopped being your friends around 2015-2016. Now it's just a matter of how much data can be harvested from device sensors in real time until reaching a pain point which doesn't exist.

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Cider9986 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

WiFi isn't that bad, we have mac address randomization[1] and VPNs. Cellular is obscenely bad, though.

[1] https://grapheneos.org/usage#wifi-privacy

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reorder9695 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If anyone's interested in this the book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is rather revealing of the sheer scale of this.

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mystraline 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yep.

And the FLOSS/Linux phone hardware attempts have frankly sucked.

I was hoping that my PinePhone Pro would actually be usable. But no, its a PineDoorstop.

Proper Linux would be a great 3rd choice. But yeah. We've got a duopoly and not much we can do about it.

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		GrapheneOS is a proper Linux. The hardware isn't open, but otherwise it's quite nice and clearly designed for the end-user's benefit, in stark contrast to the more widely-adopted alternative mobile OSes.