Doing OSINT is exactly what converted me into a privacy advocate.

I saw some retiree earlier today trying to take a pic of something. Opened his phone holding it up for all to see, and has only stock Android and bloatware apps. Like he just set it up yesterday. Worn cover and screen indicates, nope, not a new phone. I sighed a heavy sigh of sadness. Old guy has no idea. And would be pissed if he actually knew how much data he sprays all over.

It’s extremely generous of you to assume they know anything other than the most brain-stemmy calculous of “fabric word say heaven, it’s talking about the thing I like.”

Here’s an idea for a “distractions free” phone:

Any android phone.

In a work peofile use a primary launcher app that only shows 3 or 4 important apps. Disable everything else.

Lock all the rest in the normal profile with a password that is a randomized 32 or longer character string that you can’t possibly memorize.

Write it down in glaze on a plate, which you smash and store in a bag with some super glue.

“OK, so, I want a Honda Civic, but for up and down instead of forwards and backwards.”

Funny how it had to happen in that order.

I will bet you all $5 in gringo money that she had a split-second moment of clarity about how she is absolutely going to hell when she shuffles off this mortal coil, had a panic attack, and just needs a way to blame immigrants for it once she regained her normal line of corrupt and abhorrent thought.

Y’all, the last thing the suckers who will buy this want is some Nanny State telling them they can’t buy this.

It’s a stupid fake phone. Let them buy it. Who cares? If not this, the grifters already have 700 other things lined up behind it. Let them pay for our schadenfreude, as they have done so many times before.

Yeah, this is a big part of how all the broligarchy tech guys got involved with the campaign. Once the schism over social media and who controlled where you can say what started 2017-2020, there was push for and investment in full tech stacks down to full data centers controlled by Trump Media. For them, they see this as already appealing to the same captive audience they already extort daily for “donations.” Gab, MeWe, Rumble, TruthSocial, Parler, and a dozen other smaller platforms formed to try and pick at a market they hoped would be big enough to leech from for decades and not let just Zuck have all the access.

These same people on the tech side had been pushing for crypto since its inception as a new economic system. Its part of why Peter Thiel added a whole crypto wallet to Brave browser. Which is why the Trump meme coin is on the Solana blockchain, it’s the same kind of guy they got wrapped up with, that also wants to have Network States where the wealthy can be super-citizens. So their solution to everything, being ultra-wealthy people detached from reality, is to just build compete infrastructure from the ground up to suit themselves and be maximally insulated from criminal prosecution, including financial platforms, while enjoying all the amenities of living in a country built by millions of hardworking Americans.

As a daily Linux user… Yeah.

Eastern Europe loves the app Viber that Rakuten bought, which has had ads for years.

People LOVE a walled garden of their friends are there, too.

Not really, them setting up World Liberty Financial is more about their ability to control deeper tiers of the financial system so they can run scams nested within scams and push it all through crypto to hide any trails that might lead to corruption charges one he’s “out of office.”

Also, because this was news like 6 months ago and has been posted and reposted here roughly 84 million times.

And they’ll ironically lose the lawsuit about the lies and deception of this, the defense of which will be funded by donations from the idiots that buy this phone and receive messages every hour asking for more money for the legal defense fund.

Well, it’s built to use Ooga, but it’s also set up to be able to handle Booga as well. It depends on the driver set you need to load Fire and Club.

No idea, all I see as options now for Paypal and credit card.

A judgment that forces the reader to think perhaps you were the one who was hurt.

Only if you donate. Otherwise bad news, Signal.

Was this part of a survey where they get the “survey says” answers on Family Feud?

2018-2019 is when they officially turned the corner and decided to focus only on ad revenue. But the SEO abuse dove it into the ground by 2014ish. They were making money enough to expand by orders of magnitude into other areas, so they simply didn’t want to tweak their search or strategy and kill their golden goose that funded things like Good Drive and their shit social network and loon, etc.

It is, but it’s a use case that has a shitload of money behind it.

Do you know why we have had reliable e-commerce since 1999? Porn websites. That was the use case that pushed credit card acceptance online.

The demand is so huge that firms would rather stumble a bit at first to save huge amounts for a bad but barely sub-par UX.