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Mainstream social media is incredibly invasive
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this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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Social Media is not the only problem, it's far worse than that and you will not solve it leaving social media. Your employers get all the information about you from what is called 'data brokers' which are the ones who buy the data collected by all the apps that you install in your phone and sell it to everyone interested, not only companies trying to sell you something, but also employers like the case you posted and also state agencies, who dodge in this way breaking the law by spying you. That's the big business of data collection. Here an investigation made by german journalists How data brokers sell our location data
All too aware of that. Fortunately I use nothing mainstream at all. For example:
Is that GrapheneOS?
Correct.
cries in having a Samsung phone with Exynos in it
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Exynos bad, they should stop putting it.Yeah, the solution to apps selling your data is using only free software, the only problem that still remains is that your mobile network provider also sells your location data.
The only solution to that is permanent airplane mode (on an OS you can trust to do so) and just not having the phone on you most of the time.
Yeah. The solution to that is using WiFi all over, but that's not feasible for most people. That's the 1 thing I'm still stuck with. There's no 2 ways about it. Either you keep feeding your location to your mobile service provider to have internet everywhere, or you sacrifice that convenience and go completely dark. Fortunately the option of VOIP for voice calls instead of a voice Sim is available, which lessens the issue a bit. I use JMP.chat for that. Seriously thinking about getting their data Sim as well.