It’s insane that I can’t make any steps towards ungoogling myself w/o paying 2.5 times the price of a phone. I can’t buy an allready degoogled pixel here, I can’t buy fairphone here, I can only use a package forwarding service from the US, declare it to customs - and watch them add a monstrous fee to it.

I wish I could have the courage to buy a pixel and try to replace the OS myself - but I fear I will just brick it…

In what imaginary world you’re living that you have data in the middle of nowhere?

Legally , in the US , you would have to remove it from public view, keep it stored on the server, collect identifying information about the uploader, and send all that data to the authorities - all that while maintaining a low false-positive rate.
Kind of a tall order.

Save up for:

• Upgrading the A/C
• Preping my vehicle for selling and buying electric
• Cooking class
• Starting therapy again
• Switching back from the budget supermarket to the fancy one
• Dental
• Personal trainer
• Gym equipment

Is 👀 even defined?

You assume to know what kind of information is leaking when you use these apps.
How did you come to have these proprietary information?

Unless you have proof otherwise - I’m going to assume that they have access to: My location, my ip, typing speed and common spelling mistakes, IMEI identifiers , installed social media apps…

Now all it takes to make an online profile about you is just one more app or website that leaks the same kind of information

Oh my god! The first organic boneappletea I’ve seen on lemmy