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Re:Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking al... by pompino on Monday May 13, 2024 @04:23PM (#40347965)
Every phone is already being being tracked and logged. What youre really saying is that people often tolerate some tracking if done by CIA/phone company/Apple/Google/FB. We're just playing with semantics here. Tracking is either acceptable or not. The only real solution is to go off-grid.
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Re:Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking al... by tdeck on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:05PM (#40349067)
It's reasonable for a person to have a threat model that's more concerned about their violent narcissist ex attaching an AirTag to their car than about the CIA.
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Re:Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking al... by PurestGuava on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @02:47AM (#40352325)
It's astonishing how few people actually seem to realise this.
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Re:Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking al... by datadrivenangel on Monday May 13, 2024 @11:40PM (#40351432)
If the FBI wants to obliterate me, they can get a warrant and send goons to my house. The costs of preparing for that threat model are excessive, so I don't.

If some scumbag ad company wants to track me, they can eat shit on my adblocker and not track me. The cost of preparing for that threat model is trivial, so I do.

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Re:Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking al... by wolfendin on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @03:54AM (#40352674)
CIA/phone company/Apple/Google/FB/some rando are all different, independent, situations; as a reasonable adult I have decided that some of them are acceptable, some of them are not.
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