Do I now have to keep checking on these settings??
Changing privacy preferences without my knowledge or permission must be made illegal. Total FB like move.
Also, I'm generally tired of this concept of "ads relevant to me" BS.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a better cell carrier in the US?
T-Mobile has a $15/mo prepaid plan without having to pay a year in advance.
I just had o2 renew my contract rather than cancel it as I explicitly demanded and it took me a week of regular calls to customer service to get it fixed. I want to switch but it feels like I am between the devil and the deep blue sea.
on the other side you get low-end deals w/o contract for <100euro per year (call/sms flatrate plus some data) if you bring your own phone.
On the other hand, Lidl Connect (which uses Vodafone's network) charges 12.99 EUR/4 weeks for 6GB of data w/o contract. If you know of any non-contract options that offer significantly better value, please do let me know.
idk but everytime i call someone and the call quality is abysmal, that person is on telefonica network.
guess im an outlier because i rarely use more than a few hundred MB a month, so even 12e/mon is "too damn high".
I've also been in the situation of not having non-mobile internet at home and I had to deal with insufficient data caps for years, so I may also be biased towards avoiding that in the future.
I wonder how true that is.
And the other trade-off is the "real customers" get to roam on other telco's towers (in some scenarios, depending on partnership agreements), while MVNO and/or prepaid often don't.
Ting's privacy policy says this about it, and has done since I've been a customer:
"We do not sell or share your information with any third-parties so they can market to you."
Only downsides are US/Mexico/Canada only and it's pay as you go but you can't pay more than a week before the bill is due. Autopay is an option.
I have one line for my phone and one I use for home internet.
They do throttle tethering to 5Mbps, but that's easy enough to work around by making the TTL of the device you need full speed match the TTL of the phone by the time it gets there. (68 IIRC) For example, the connection I'm using now is desktop->router->linux box->phone, so I set my desktop TTL to 71.
I have no idea how bad they are with data collection, though.
"And we're the wireless service that gets better with friends. For as little as $25/mo, you’ll get unlimited data, messages and minutes—powered by Verizon, now with 5G included. Oh, one last thing: Every time you refer a friend, you’ll get a month of service for $5."
1) I also once changed my privacy preferences, but have since been opted back in. 2) I wouldn't have even known to check were it not for Hacker News, which is _not_ how I, nor hopefully anyone, would want to be notified of changes to my/their T-Mobile account. 3) I'm greeted with a generic "Update Operation Failed" when I try to opt any of the lines on my account back out, so now I have even less faith that my changes will stick.
The Sprint/T-Mobile merger that was proposed a decade ago was denied by the FTC. The recent merger was allowed by the FTC, thus reducing our number of cellular companies.
If you mean “the real system first described as ‘capitalism’”, no, it doesn’t.
If you mean “the abstract, never realized ‘ideal’ system that defenders of capitalism appeal to whenever criticism is levelled at real-world capitalism”, that's harder to assess since the descriptions of that system tend to be both internally inconsistent and incomplete. But nothing usually hear in those encourages competition, usually it's defenders just assert as an article of faith that restriction of competition requires active cooperation of government.
https://fortune.com/2021/03/04/dish-5g-mobile-cheapest-servi...
Even the article you posted mentions this in the headline. I have no idea why you feel the need to be so disingenuous.
I looked this morning expecting to find an additional toggle and found several settings I thought were toggled off were toggled on. I was thinking this was an oversight on my part until I saw this thread, but now I’m not so sure.
Not one privacy setting that I exerted manual control over ever changed out from under me. Whatever controversies they came under in that time with all the additional accompanying scrutiny, this aspect never changed. Perhaps there are counter examples out there, but that’s how it was for me.
I also don’t recall if there were settings for those things, probably not because learning how else Facebook used those widgets to profile me was what prompted me to quarantine Facebook to Chrome, blacklist Facebook’s domains in NoScript and reduce then eliminate my usage.