@LALegault pretty horrifying. Looks like Elon Musk will have effective control of potentially every phone in the planet and quite a few of the cars, not to mention the totality of the United States.
When he declares himself Emperor of the World, how will the resistance organise itself if he controls the comms?
I wish apple users could at least opt-out. This is nuts
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eagerly awaiting your list of alternative smartphone manufacturers and mobile OS authors who consistently respect and protect their users and make widely-accessible, comparably-functional products.
Do you know of anyway this can be disabled?
@jgys @highvoltage @LALegault maybe fairphone? And I believe by default it runs a degooglified android that is a reasonable compromise.
Personally I use a pinephone with mobian and it works just fine for my needs. but that option isn't exactly ready for everybody.
@highvoltage syncing to one’s own server (using nextcloud or anything else) might reduce avenues for corporate surveillance, but it creates a whole new set of attack surfaces that are now your responsibility. Maybe it’s the right choice for you, but to me it seems like getting out of the frying pan and into the fire.
@highvoltage as for Apple being “the worst,” I hope you don’t take this as sealioning, but can you point to your sources?
My impression has been that Apple has been (relative to the mainstream alternatives, anyway) fairly well-regarded in terms of privacy and security for their users, in part because of the walled garden thing, whatever its other downsides.
@highvoltage yeah, I think that for most people a degooglified fairphone is a significantly more reasonable compromise
and I thought that was enough to protect from at least some mass surveillance, is that false?
@highvoltage isn’t Louis Rossman’s main gripe about right to repair? Apple’s definitely a bad actor in this respect, but I don’t know if that makes using their devices a bad choice for a typical consumer.
I’d agree that protecting right to repair has good second-order effects for consumers, but I suspect that most consumers considering an iPhone would, in the event that it broke, either replace it or go to Apple for repairs, so maybe not a bad choice for them individually.
@highvoltage anyway, I’ll take a look at your website when it’s available.