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Fucking hell

I’m in the UK, and have given up half way through a lot of applications because the software they’ve used for the applications process is American.

There are FOSS alternatives for all of those on F-Droid. But removing Play Services does break google maps, which is the one app of theirs I still make use of

Same thing in the UK, except you’ve got to top it up at least every 3 months, minimum of £5 each time IIRC, or they disconnect it.

Personally I’d be up for paying £100 cash for a SIM that would stay connected for 5 years or so. Sadly, doesn’t exist

This could be it. If they get any inkling that people are seriously organising politically, they’ll want to get in early and nip it in the bud.

Thing is, that google and apple will, for most people, automatically upload photos to their servers and process them in ways none of us are really certain of. By photographing with a phone, anyone’s face could be matched up with a time and place. And then there’s the potential problem of the person uploading it on purpose.

Photography isn’t the problem - it’s the tech attached to it.

Personally, I’m with you - because I’m not a person of interest. If I was a political agitator, e.g. trying to start a McDonald’s union, I might feel differently

“Just the people they’re interested in”

“We do not collect your precise location”.

So… just like, to the nearest 10 metres then?

Child miners should unionised raise their rates.

Dammit. Why do ethics and privacy have to cost four times the price I usually pay :(

If you can remember how to disable this, please let me know

Use TAILS on a USB drive, and keep the USB drive somewhere nobody would think of looking. Underneath the tissues in an open box, buried in a jar outside, or just on a keyring unless you’re worried about being taken in yourself

Definitely sends false info as to what kind of products you might like to buy, and maybe what kind of products are worth advertising on the sites you visit, but personally I’d rather send the message “I’m not at all interested, ignore me”

Doesn’t that mean even more agents will know what websites you visit?

Makes sense if there are. Facebook knew my phone number in advance without me having provided it. Enough friends had given permission to access their contacts that they pretty much knew who I was in advance

My work (which only has 99.9% uk based clients) has an Exchange server that automatically blocks any email that isnt one of the above, plus .co.uk and .uk.com

Saves on so much spam, 1000+ per day. I think twice in 20 years we had to manually unblock a .fr and .au domain

My bank did the same… except not really. A bunch of functions still opens in the browser, but you can only get to them via the app, not directly using just the browser.

Another option for you would just be “buy a secondhand cheap phone for banking and nothing else”

There’s a few places like that in Lanzarote. Pretty cool.