This is something that sneaks up on you as well. And all that started a few years ago when I finally decided to get myself my first smartphone and tried to optimize data usage and battery life. I then realized that not only some apps and “system processes” were using battery and data when not in use, but that there wasn’t even given a way for me to stop it from happening. I also got creeped out when I moved to work in another building and Facebook started giving me friend suggestions of people who worked there. Location wasn’t even enabled on my phone.
And now today I have no mainstream social media account, run GrapheneOS on my phone, Linux on my computer and have migrated to almost entirely FOSS software and apps. I have become the crazy privacy obsessed weirdo.
Not a weirdo. It is the only reasonable thing to do. Unfortunately, many people lack education about the true extent of mass surveillance / profiling and the potential massive repercussions that it can have for society à la Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Every day I slowly become more of a paranoid Schizophrenic
You need to these days
Os everyone here on graphene OS or other linux privacy phones? Or you guys only draw the line when it comes to desktop OS?
I got a Pixel specifically to install GrapheneOS on it after going on a huge FOSS/privacy kick last year (coincidentally around the same time I joined Lemmy…)
Privacy is not a myth. Keep resisting.
This does remember me the cyberdeck.cafe cookies popup with the button “Resistance is Futile” (uBlock automatically removes it).
Edit: thank you for those in reply who helped to “annotate” this meme
The software pictured are:
- graphene os
- new pipe
- Signal
- MPV
- libre wolf
- KeepassXC
- Aurora Store
- fdroid
- Free Tube
Bonus. tux
Are… are we the same person? Steam is my only exception.
I vote for adding the tails os logo too
Bruh not VLC ?
MPV ftw.
