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Enjoy owning your devices while you still can.
cross-posted from: lemmy.wtf/post/49143200
uk.pcmag.com/security/167356/your-computer-might-demand-your-age-soon-no-matter-where-you-livecross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/71629767
This is unacceptable. And I’m sick of all the fucking workarounds to maintain basic privacy.
Replying to @DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf
Nice of them to push everyone to Linux.
Replying to @Dadifer@lemmy.world
Not gonna matter when apps and services start blocking Linux, or even worse, should this shit creep up the chain to the ISP level and should ISPs start requiring an Apple, Google, or MS OS just to get online to begin with.
Replying to @DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf
That’s when I buy a LoRa array and a ham license.
The thing about the Internet is that anyone can be an ISP and any devices can be networked. If consumer ISPs become gatekeepers, we can network without them. And then we can tunnel encrypted data over the official devices that can’t be fully locked down.
Replying to @adespoton@lemmy.ca
… You can just be your own ISP? Is that, like, an actual thing one can do, or more a last ditch hypothetical thing that’s technically possible, but realistically not doable?
Replying to @dharmacurious@slrpnk.net
Yeah, just like you can run your own SMTP service and exchange e-mail, or… could 25 years ago before the big players froze all the small players out of the big network pool. You can set up your own internet, your own e-mail network, etc. but the Facebooks, Whats Apps, Apples and Googles of the world will lock your internet out of their internet.
Replying to @MangoCats@feddit.it
Pretty much.
/someone who runs their own SMTP service.
Replying to @MangoCats@feddit.it
But that’s a good thing and the whole point? You can use the big tech internet and all their services, or you can use the non big tech internet and not use their services.