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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by markovbot on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:42AM (#22533304)
Why would someone buy a whole new phone just to use a shitty advertising network they explicitly did not want to use?
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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by gambiting on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @03:18AM (#22533411)
Who said anything about a phone? Prepaid SIM cards are free, top one up with £5 and you're good to go.
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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by deadbunny on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:13AM (#22533935)
> Sounds like a job for a burner phone.

I mean it's right there...

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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by gambiting on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:33AM (#22534024)
Right, but the "phone" part of a burner phone is essentially superfluous, it's the sim card that serves the purpose here. Of course you need to put it into something but it doesn't matter what. You can swap your main sim card with a "burner" sim, get the code to authenticate, then swap back. It takes 2 minutes.
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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by andrepd on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @11:32AM (#22536299)
You can get a free SIM, but even if you have to pay 5$ or whatever... many people still need to use facebook messenger to get in touch with some people, for instance.
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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by markovbot on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @01:04PM (#22537218)
and then what, run the spyware on my main phone, so it can have all of my data and my friends data?
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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by Macha on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @01:28PM (#22537447)
m.facebook.com for the social network

mbasic.facebook.com for chat

No apps needed

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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by vetinari on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @08:37AM (#22534860)
Even if you take it literally as a physical phone instead of SIM, the SMS verification works equally well with 20 EUR Nokia dumbphone as with the latest iPhone.
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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by anoncake on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:53AM (#22534387)
Because due to network effects they effectively have to use it.
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