The privacy sub may be even more paranoid than the stim subs.

This haunts them in their sleep:

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[–] 98 points 2 years ago (24 children)

Privacy sub... Iphone

What a lack of computer literacy and libre software thought does to a mf.

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    [–] 78 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    what does this person think China will do with this information you live in another country dipshit china can't arrest you

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    They can just buy the information from data brokers anyhow

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    [–] 64 points 2 years ago*

    It’s like Snowden & Assange taught these people nothing.

    All the new media literacy pedagogy should be thrown out and replaced with Michael Parenti’s Inventing Reality and Make-Believe Media.

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  • [+] 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
    [–] 60 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    cares about privacy

    downloads a shopping/fast fashion app

    on an i phone

    posts to his reddit account

    something isn't adding up

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    [–] 57 points 2 years ago (35 children)

    Is there an iPhone equivalent of deleting System32 because that's clearly the answer to this question.

    If anyone is that worried about data privacy, they shouldn't have a smartphone lol.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (31 children)

    I think that attitude is frankly toxic. It's the digital equivalent of "if you don't like America, you can move to Afghanistan!".

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    the platform and devices are kinda counter to principles of privacy. the towers track you, "free" software where your data is the product, the panopticon of everyone having a camera... Places that need to actually be secure ban them. You can get by without a smart phone just fine if you have a regular computer but then you transfer all the vulnerability to that device, it's just not physically with you and you have a little bit better control over it if you know or care enough to make the efforts.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The real toxic attitude is simply expecting everyone to have a smartphone. Stop trying to make me install an app or scan a QR code for everything. I've gone without using a smartphone for months at a time and I was fine. Pre-covid there were usually a couple times where some event or restaurant or work thing required some unnecessary app, but since covid I think people have gotten sick of this type of stuff and it's not as common. Worse case scenario just get a burner phone for when you're forced to use a smartphone.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago

    r/privacy is full of the dumbest people I've ever met. If you cared about privacy you would never have a smartphone in the first place.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago* (12 children)
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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago

    This guy just got tricked into downloading a communism and you're laughing?

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Scared about privacy. Has a public reddit profile with a year long posting history.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    xinternet Oh god oh fuck Xi is in my phone. He made my wallpaper an animated Chinese flag flapping in the breeze and the language preferences looked like they're being 变成中国人请帮忙我很害怕

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    shit is so stupid. i don't care if the chinese government spies on me. I live in america. It's DHS, ICE, CIA, FBI that want to kidnap me and harvest my organs. chinese govt can't do shit to me and have no reason to. honestly i dare them. xi-plz

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I have a google phone right now but I'd love to get a Chinese phone when I need a new one. I'm pretty sure the party isn't getting transcripts of what I yell at my phone right now, so I'm hoping a Xiaomi or Huawei would be more conducive to sharing my political advice with the chairman

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    [+] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    xi jinping is inside my phone

    volcel-judge

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    Critical support to Temu for separating chuds from their money

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Obviously most apps are stealing your data but people's reactions to Temu are literally insane. They have a thing where they'll literally paypal you £20-£40 to refer other users, I was 1 referral away and 2 friends wouldn't download it because it's Chinese. Another two friends said that people they know had money stolen by it... like, legality and possibility aside yes, I'm sure Pinduoduo, one of the BIGGEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD needs to steal your last tenner

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago*

    why would one of the BIGGEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD need

    You can say the exact same thing about PayPal which is known to 'misplace' people's money and make it extremely difficult to get back. I don't see how any other fintech company would be different.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Too late sweaty, CCP knows everything you've ever said or done now, along with everyone you've ever talked to. You can't put the cat back in the bottle Charlie. Your whole life is in the communists hands. You might want to turn yourself into your local FBI office and accept your torture and eventual murder for the crimes you've bestowed on this free nation.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you're that paranoid about privacy, perhaps an iPhone and social media are not the right choices for you.

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    lmaooooo the "data breach" tag

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    I go out of my way to never download any apps that secretly steal data (or ones from China)

    So apps from China that don't steal data are also bad?

    I've seen someone echo this exact same sentiment, they were suspicious of an open source project on GitHub not having malware because the maintainers were Chinese and there was a Chinese translation of the README file, American propaganda is mind-rotting.

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