A secret list of who is approved and who is banned. Yeah, I understand anonymity is good, but the list won’t actually be secret, but pretending it’s secret will help hide Google’s censorship moves.
I really hate this timeline. 99% of companies pushing users into walled gardens. Governments and banks forcing people to use invasive apps that only work in those walled gardens. Slowly our control is eroded, yet your average user couldn’t care less as long as they get to watch their TikTok slop for a few hours a day.
Until a Linux phone becomes viable I’ll be using a rooted custom ROM and avoiding banking/government apps like the plague.
Times of Cyanogenmod and Paranoid Android was the golden years when we were excited about how awesome tech would be as opposed to how it’d be used to exploit, control, and spy on people.
When you try to inform them. They make the argument about having nothing to hide or what do they care. Everyone harvests data anyway. It does not matter.
Absolutely. The general population is braindead when it comes to privacy and digital rights and it gets worse with newer generations as 24/7 connectivity and everything being online is the norm for them. As long as they can watch some social media slop they are satisfied. I believe the proliferation of AI will accelerate this as people delegate their critical thinking faculties to machines and accept big tech’s propaganda as gospel. Chatgippity knows best, right?
Enough with the bs!
It’s crazy. And yet it’s so expected. And I feel so powerless. I’d be able to adb install but we need wide access to open source tools now more than ever. Especially tools for organizing. And that seems to be what they’re targetting. 😔
There’s always Graphene and mobile linux distros you can switch to if it gets bad enough.
I can. My family can’t and most people we need probably couldn’t either. That’s what I mean by wide availability of open source tools needed for organizing. And that’s what their aim is. Make it difficult enough for most who’d need such tools so they just don’t do it.
It’s our job to help the technical developers make more progress on the projects so the transition can be smoother for the everyday people. We’re builders not bystanders.
Pinephone and other options are looking really good right now.
Evil ass hybrid alphabet - Mossad agency
