Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship

Re:Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance a... by npteljes on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:33AM (#28153656)

I agree with you, the general public doesn't give a shit. There will be headlines for a few times, some people change their phones, and that'll be it. The biggest of these movements, I think, is the "de-googling" one. There's a myriad of articles, subreddits, guides, websites even, listing alternatives. And look what happened to Google. Nothing.

When the alternative to apple's surveillance is to smash the phone against a wall, and buy something that's much less convenient, suddenly surveillance is not that big of a problem. And this is very important to note because many world's powerful entities are moving in this direction.

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Re:Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance a... by idunnoman on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:08AM (#28154765)

But it doesn't happen over night. The cracks are forming though.

Duckduckgo.com is now at 93,533,476 searches daily.

My non-technical brother just purchased a 3 year Fastmail account and switched from Chrome to Firefox. For added effect, he bought a subscription to Bitwarden. I didn't push him to do any of this, I just told him what I'm using.

His wife refused to put an internet enabled webcam in their new babies room, citing security concerns.

It's happening. But Rome wasn't built in a day.

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