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14 days agoI think one the biggest sells, especially for these custom rom’s is privacy to be honest. I don’t really trust Google or Apple with the data they probably collect. During COVID parents were being reported to law enforcement for CSAM when sending pictures of there kids medical issues to doctors(Archive Link).
One I guess could argue that sure shit happens when it comes to that scenario, but with the political climate in America combined with the fact that some of the largest tech companies seem to be kowtowing to whatever the current administration is doing, probably makes a lot of people rethink privacy and to find alternatives.
I agree with everything you said, I remember seeing this graph that shows how likely House Democrats and Republicans where likely to vote with their party between 1949 -2011, which already showed a pretty bleak outlook, here’s the full paper.
The second thing that I noticed about ten years ago maybe before that was the sudden increase in misinformation on Facebook and YouTube that people will believe as truth, and since they see it engages you they will constantly bombard them with more and of it. I remember as a kid adults saying don’t believe everything you read, and if so and so would jump off a bridge would you? A lot of them should have taken there own advice.
It’s not just older generations, younger ones are obviously affected by it but in different ways cyber bullying, that weird Andrew Tate following and other.
I heard someone explain like this, let’s say a person walks up to on the street and asks you to buy something, obviously it’s easy to say no and walk away. Now instead of a person imagine it’s a machine with 10 billion times more intelligent than all of humanity combined is constantly trying to get you to click a link.