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google is a prison and the enemy of FOSS, we really need an alternative (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago* by to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Confirm with biometrics... WTF?!

People should have the universal right to live a cellphone-free life. In my country, it is assumed that everyone uses an iPhone or a Google Android phone as if it was part of your own self.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm confused by this comment. The outrage is that if you want to use your phone, in the modern smartphone sense of the word which uses apps, then you have to do so by Google's rules which excludes a lot of apps you might want to run, or jump through ridiculous hoops apparently including biometrics to do so with your own device. That's terrible, but, this particular outrage is quite separate to one's ability to live a cellphone free life. I'm not going to pretend like that's not increasingly unfeasible, but this issue with identified developers doesn't have much to do with it since it's only an issue for you if you're even using a phone in the first place and then it just makes using it a much shittier time then it ought to be, it doesn't lessen or increase the dependency upon phones in general.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    It's about control, in the end. Citizens are now linked by the governments to their phone numbers, as well as companies make it a priority to get your phone number and data.

    Somewhere in the middle of not using a mobile at all and having a device that monitors everything you do, non stop, are owning a dumb phone and having some control on the apps you install in your smartphone.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    They used to publish a whole book that had your name, and often address linked to your phone. B don't perfect that this fake outrage by you is anything but disingenuous for what phones and any other hundred identifiers of you as a person to the government or anyone else. Your argument is infantile in it's temper tantrum for it's argument. 

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