442 karma · joined September 27, 2017
All ads and tracking can be blocked if you want them to. Its a arms race.
The strength of Android is that you can customize it. Some people like Touchwizz. I prefer oxygenOS.
My budget allows me to spend €500 on entertainment/leisure per month. You can bombard me with advertising all day but that's not going to change my finances.
That's if you're lucky. I don't want to sound paranoid but if there are sensors in your house its only a matter of time before someone wants to use them.
Security is a nightmare and I don't want to be profiled by anyone.
Ofcourse even back then they never extended FISA to non US citizens. Nobody legislates the CIA.
If you can pull that off you might as well say fuck it and take over the country with force.
It does cost vast amounts of money though. China spends more on surveillance and the police than the entire military budget.
Unfortunately companies I do business with are allowed to try to sell me things. But the Outlook spam filter is pretty good.
Actually my government already has rules on that. Using my debetcard at a store, withdrawing money from an ATM or transferring money between bankaccounts is free.
Its almost as if we live in 21st century already!
No the data industry should have been euthanized years ago.