A good sign that Pixel with privacy OSes actually give you freedom back.
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Look at how media organisations written by those who enable police state authoritarianism attack #GrapheneOS and put our name in their mouths. Title: "Every time we see a Google Pixel, we think it could be a drug dealer." It's the perfect phone for crime for a reason." https://archive.ph/2025.07.02-161230/https://www.xatakandroid.com/sociedad/cada-vez-que-vemos-google-pixel-pensamos-que-puede-ser-narcotraficante-movil-perfecto-para-crimen-sencilla-razon# There are ongoing coordinated attempts at misleading people about GrapheneOS and Signal in multiple European countries. A consistent pattern are completely unsubstantiated claims about exploits with no evidence. These are contradicted by actual evidence, leaks and their behavior. GrapheneOS is not immune to exploitation, but the fearmongering done in these ongoing attacks on it is very clearly fabricated. They feel threatened enough by GrapheneOS to engage in coordinated attempts at convincing people that it's unable to protect their privacy and security. View quoted note →
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I mean that it allows you to use it privately with some basic privacy literacy such as I have finally accumulated (I used to SUCK at privacy because the Internet had no private money as far as I was aware when I was younger)
Like it was the default to find reasonably trustworthy sites and just give them all your billing info, and make accounts that had that tied to it. There was no clear alternative and it worked, plus I was unaware of how degenerate humanity was and was too trusting of just day to day people, because to me it's insanely obvious that to be honest is better and it was hard for me to fathom how much of a criminal or high time preference mindset a large fraction of people have, how little parents take responsibility for raising their kids to be decent people instead of traumatizing them and encouraging the worst in them, etc.
Oh I didn't know that's what you meant. Yeah you can't trust normies with your most private information. You gotta stand up for yourself and say look, Mac, we ain't gonna be close friends unless you go to private, open source, better alternatives.
All your info is supposed to be private. You're defaulting to the wrong position, IMO. At some point, I'm gonna have to write letters again, but that is obviously less secure in many ways.
All of your private info should be private in the sense that you can selectively reveal it. That doesn't mean you need to keep all of it secret. What position am I defaulting to? I don't think I am at all.
Lol! I think you might have misinterpreted something then. I'm trying to be more privacy conscious and haven't been in the past, but I've always been on the side of privacy rights and safety. I'm just extremely precise with my language. I don't talk like other people so my words don't carry the same connotative meaning as normies or even most other bitcoiners.