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Re:My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveill... by loa_in_ on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:01AM (#25289437)
You as a user can choose to uninstall it immediately and try alternatives until successful.

Most people of course, akin to how paying with card makes you overspend because you don't see the money, agree to anything because it's just a button on the screen not a potentially predatory human person.

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Re:My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveill... by shuntress on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:36AM (#25289829)
Those two things are not equivalent.

In the case of overly vague terms of service, people agree to them because there are essentially no options or alternatives.

Sure, it does not help that people agree to them without thinking about it. Which is somewhat similar to people spending money without thinking about how much they have.

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Re:My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveill... by swiley on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:50PM (#25291950)
You know full well there are plenty of situations where that's not an option and that almost no one fully appreciates what happens when they press agree.

The whole culture around closed smart phone apps is completely rotten.

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