I mean yeah, but for a lot of people if they ditch their phone they’ll also lose their job and possibly relationships they value.

Cell phones spying on people isn’t good, but most people are simply not informed about how invasive they are and couldn’t make an informed decision if they tried. Pair that with the fact that cell phones are essential for a lot of modern life, and it’s not difficult to see why the average person is generally more wary of smart speakers than cell phones.

I meant they’re easier to justify in the sense that I see why people don’t put much thought into putting a spying device in their pocket, not that I agree with the disregard. Most peoples’ friends, family, employers, etc. all expect them to have a cell phone and be available by it. Additionally, the way most people interact with their phones, the spying is much less obvious. They joke about them “always listening”, but a lot of people don’t understand the privacy concerns of pretty typical internet use, so the fact that the device has more than just a microphone, it appears to be worth it to a more typical consumer than us.

Contrast that with an Alexa, google home, or apple home thing, devices which nobody cares if someone else doesn’t own, which most people only see as a microphone and speaker, and whose primary functionality is to always be listening to you. The skepticism is much easier to arise.

I’m not saying the level at which cell phones spy on their users is acceptable or even worth it, just that I see why the average user who isn’t conscious of their privacy doesn’t regard them with the same concern they do smart speakers.

Phones are at least easier to justify since everyone kinda needs one now and there aren’t many great private options, especially for the lay person

1. Unplug your amazon echo devices

2. Hit it with a hammer

3. Send it to an electronics recycler

My understanding is that Fennec only removes Mozilla’s telemetry, whereas IronFox (forked from the discontinued Mull) is that plus patches to further harden the browser.

IronFox is available through F-Droid via the project’s own repository, but is recommended to install through Accrescent, which you can learn more about here.

Andy Yen’s messages were echoed and doubled-down on by official Proton accounts.

The truth to the posts made are the critiques of the Democratic party, not their praise of the republican party. If their posts consisted only of the former, there would be nothing to argue with. But their statements included the unhinged notion that Republicans are somehow antitrust and will fight monopolies.

I would say it is wrong to praise an opponent for doing something right when the only basis for it is that one of their opponents is also fucking up. The fact that democrats are controlled by money has no bearing on whether or not Republicans are.

“Copilot, analyze player xXWaterUnderYourMumsBridge4201Xx to determine what would be the most accurate slur to call them”

Not the person you responded to but as a former Brave user, I’ve been very satisfied with LibreWolf on desktop, and IronFox on Android.

It’s almost poetic how Tay.ai, Microsoft’s earlier shitty ai, was also poisoned by internet trolling and became a Nazi on twitter nearly a decade ago

But you have to pay humans, and give them bathroom breaks, and allow them time off work to spend with their loved ones. Where’s the profit in that? Surely it’s more clever and efficient to shovel time and money into replacing something that will never be able to practically develop beyond current human understanding. After all, we’re living in the golden age of humanity and history has ended! No new knowledge will ever be made so let’s just make machines that regurgitate our infallible and complete knowledge.