I can only answer why I dropped Windows. I wasn’t going to pay a company to force AI spyware onto my system, ignore my commands with every update that negated them, or hold my data hostage if I didn’t jump through their endless hoops; all to claim my data as theirs with their end goal being to charge me more money for accessing what is supposed to be mine in the first place!

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More and more sites are moving away from allowing users access when creating accounts with temporary or alias addresses, and usage with vpns. Identity based accounts can’t be tracked if they don’t know your true identity.

In the not too distant future, everything you do online and off will be connected to your real world identity.

In order to provide you with better security, Google is required to know everything about you at all times. The shareholders demand it…smh

being opt out needs to be a right. That implies that having data be harvested for companies to make profits should be the default.

As the years have passed, it has become the acceptable consensus for all of your personal information, thoughts, and opinions, to become freely available to anyone, at anytime, for any reason in order for companies to profit from it.

People keep believing this is normal and companies keep taking more. Unless everyone is willing to stand firm and say enough, I only see it declining further, unfortunately.

It seems to me that nothing is really new and there is nothing exciting, if not interesting, about technology today.

There is the massive infiltration of personal privacy to surveil everyone for whatever reason that is currently deemed acceptable, so there is that - smh

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I did not see a reason given. Anyone know why?

Thank you!

I really need to learn how to set that up.

So the only way to opt out of this hell is to kill your internet connection? That sucks!

They are also good for coffee and tea cups.

This is an out of the box idea (no pun intended), have you considered using an effervescent denture cleaner like Effordent? Fill container with warm water and dump a bunch of tablets in it.

Would it not make more sense to remove metadata and not even collect it? Maybe have an encrypted protocol for push notifications all developers use regardless of the app?

Would it be possible for Apple to just encrypt this data or, not keep this data? Then there would be nothing to give law enforcement or government. (Forgive my ignorance, I have no idea how all this works.)

I just wanted to add how I enjoy this community and all the witty banter. Thanks for boldly going where no meme or gif has gone before.

Yeah, no. I’ll take my Galaxy Fold 5 over an iPhone any day of the week, thanks.

The Spen is a great feature, imo. Iphone has nothing to compare on that front.

I prefer my car just be a car! I am definitely getting old.

How sad it is when “at least they aren’t an advertising company” is one of the better alternatives!