How Big Tech is Controlling Your Life
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2024
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You are one of the very Best on RUclips, and now, with over a Million Subs, I'm not wrong. When I don't see you for long periods, I get worried like as if I somehow got unsubscribed.
Digital or not we are slaves already. Thats why I live minimalistic so I don't have to work as much. Life is short.
Quick thing. Do your research on adverts in future. Ground News is NOT the biggest news source in the world. Not by a long shot, it’s not even in the top ten…
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I'm betting it's "one of the biggest" when you include all the rags that you can see there
Careful, you mentioned RUclips a couple times in a less than positive way… your ‘social credit score’ may get demerit.
My Debit Card has been totally blocked. I'm not asking for loans and when I can see bank statements, I see no suspicious activity. I am old and severly handicapped. I am looking forward to an electric scooter but currently, It is very exhausting to get to the bank for cash. It is not visible to them what could be wrong with my card even the new one. People seem to be afraid to do their jobs. They even scoff at my ID! It's not their Money.
On top of that, ironically, YT is blocking half my comments even though I am a Premium Subscriber and need it for my limited Social Activity. I am always careful never to offend.
hence CD isn't showing up in my recommended videos on YT, have to scroll through subs to find them
These days you just have to mention Ground News as a sponsor and you're demoted.
The views on this video is way lower than usual for one released a day ago. Google isn’t happy with this one.
They didn't notify me with a bell. That's because I am sure I am 👻'd after getting 2 warnings and not telling me for which 'comments' got me the warning. So I just continue to tell the historical truth.
If something is free, then you, are the product.
I'd be so disappointed if i got myself as a product.
@@personaslates yeah, jokes on them, I can't afford to buy anything anyway
@@jr2904 You can vote, though.
Wrong, comma, but you’re right.
How is for example the Linux Kernel using me as a product?
Imagine if somebody 40 years ago told you to open up your front door, and let just about anybody in to wander around your house, go through all of your stuff, read all your private documents, whilst also being told that you had to let this go on 24/7, 365 days per year. You would have told that person to get lost whilst telling them nobody would be that stupid. Yet today we do all of that and so much more.
20 years ago one of the main plot points of a game Deus Ex was that global communications were routed through one giant hub and monitored. It was shocking. At the end, you had the choice of destroying the hub and cutting off global comms, or merging with it and controlling it.
Looks like Zuckerberg and others chose to merge.
Thats the point exactly. I suspect generation x is more understanding of this concept, than the younger generations.
How about getting into random peoples cars because theres an app involved? Lol
I liked the video and gave a thumbs up, so now they have a new data point.
I'm the frog that hopped out of the pot, but I'm sittin on the edge keeping my feet in the warm water.
It's impossible to cut yourself off completely, especially if you do want to use stuff like YT, but I take pride in the fact that I started to hate social media almost a decade ago. Deleted my accounts, and haven't used FB, Twitter, Insta, etc., since. Wasn't the privacy/data that turned me off, it was regular people. I just can't find myself to care about the crap people post, nor can I stand people becoming experts in something overnight any time the "story of the day" pops up that gets everyone up in arms. The fact that all the data companies think they know about me is over 10 years outdated is icing on the cake.
I think limiting data is helpful to us, so limiting your input to places where data is gathered is a great strategy.
Thats me. I actively check app permissions at least once a month, and keep looking for an excuse to remove more. One thing I have noticed when using a firewall, if you don't allow a certain Gservice access (can't remember which one otoh) then nothing can access the internet. Now that I do not agree with, as it tells me G is actively watching ALL data.
I'm serioiusly considering a dumb phone once 4G is obsolete.
@@zigzagtoes "I'm serioiusly considering a dumb phone once 4G is obsolete."
Should have also mentioned, that while I call/text family and friends, I always thought smartphones and smartphone apps were super stupid, so I never bought into those full force. I've got a smartphone, but it's like 8 years old at this point. Smartphones and apps overall are just pointless tech.
I just use Google Voice to handle all my calls and stuff so I don't need to pay for phone service. As long as I have Wifi, I'm good. Being on unsecured networks doesn't matter too much, because I don't use social media, don't handle money in the slightest with a phone, and the email/number associated with the phone are both throwaways.
I love the look on salespeople's face when they try to ask me what phone service I use, and I tell them I don't use any. It's like them trying to divide by zero.
Don't get me wrong, I love technology, and I'm not super obsessed with privacy, but my general annoyance with other people and trends, has bit of a beneficial side effect.
Dumb phones work on three g. Here in Australia they are shutting down the three g system this year so you will have to use a smart phone
@@simongibbs9392 4G dumb phones exist (in UK at least), give it a couple more years I expect a 5G dumbphone on the market. If one never shows up, then I go phoneless. As it is now, my phone spends 90% of its life on silent, so I wouldn't miss having one. Got a pc for comms.
Imagine the gold mine of data they get from people wearing sensor and camera laden devices strapped to their faces, looking directly into their eyes and looking at, listening to and 3D scanning the space around them and everyone in it.
that is definition of AR glasses comming soon
This is important, and I'm glad everyone is starting to talk about it. Cory Doctorow has written profusely on the topic. I love that his term "enshittification" is actually entering the semi public lexicon. (Or moving out of the circles of deep nerdiness at least)
The real problem is indeed the enshittification most of these business models inevitably lead to. So in the end we have all these dystopian problems with none of the utopian benefits.
When you mention something in conversation that is completely outside of your normal sphere and start getting adverts for it on your other devices within minutes you know that they are always listening. I have tested this a few times with totally random discussions about products that I don't need and have never searched for online. Scary stuff.
We have that happen a lot, too. It's creepy and I'm sure it's illegal, certainly immoral, to be listening in on private conversations.
I still remember some 6 years ago talking to my mum about football and how stupid it is (we lived near a stadium back then). It was for like 3 minutes and a word “football” was mentioned maybe 4-5 times tops. After 20 minutes my Samsung phone just randomly started sending me push notifications with football matches results. What is even scarier is that the same exact thing happend again like a year ago after I was retelling the story to my wife. Big brother really is around for a long time already…
That’s become wearily normal.
@@janspacek2887I had this EXACT same situation happen to me. I was chilling next to my parents while they talked to my cousin on their phone. I don't watch, follow, or lookup sports AT ALL. They bring up football, and 5 minutes later I get a notification for football stats. Like bruh, really???
Very scary. I was having a Facebook Messenger conversation with an older friend recently and he happened to mention that he'd joined a 50+ dating site to see who was out there. Almost instantly, MY Facebook feed starting including ads for Plenty of Fish, Our Time, and a number of other adult-centric dating sites! Facebook is reading Messenger posts in real time!
We shouldn't be letting these companies commodify our personal information. That should be illegal.
You are the resource peasant, start producing.
I hope you can afford to pay for everything then.
@@filonin2 Meh
Thanks for your response, watching this video and commenting has just added a few extra kbs.
@@filonin2 You're assuming only free products collect analysis.
Thanks Paul. I really needed cheering up today.
Only a solar flare can save us at this point.
Its not too late. We could all build carbureted V8 Mad Max cars, and do road warrior against the adverting.
Watch the movie “Enemy of the State” that was made in 1998.
New fresh start 😂
And a solar flare with the same polarity, where it hits Earth's magnetic field, to induce a massive electrical surge.
Yup! That would really create a level playing field. We would be seeking advise from the Luddites, on how to cook using fire and how to use horses to pull the plow.
That was a very thought provoking video Oh darn now they know my thoughts ! Really, nice video Paul.
Have been using google doc a lot for a private hobby and now I'm constantly being flooded with YT adverts for data management as if I were leading a fully fledged data company.
It's chilling; I've warned my non-tech savvy friends over the years; but they're complacent about their privacy, and don't see the negative issues that this all brings.
I've had family members tell me they welcome the targeted ads, and don't give a shit about google listening to their private conversations.
I don't get it myself, it's so invasive but maybe they're not grasping how deep it goes
@@beayn They will get it when their bank account freeze for "wrongthink".
@@gamingforpizza5142 And they will understand it more, when the vote they gave to 'that nice looking man or women, offering many great promises' turns out to be a closet, super paranoid dictator, that suddenly gets into power and then becomes fearful of those that did not vote for them. Then they find people start to disappear in the middle of the night and heads of certain organisations get arrested for no apparent reason. "Too late!" you cry!
There's another saying: if something is free, then you are the product.
Also, if you aren't at the table, you are probably on the menu.
Now I'm hungry.
Very ironic how this content creator slow boiled his frogs with that advertisement plug..... hahaha
as an individual who has a degree in Network security this episode is 100% on the mark but only scratches the surface.
👀 So 'Big Brother:1984' is already in the near future? 😱
Wonder if the Amish have some spare land for a 'newbie' ?
@@David-yo5ws That Future already exists in Main land China. If we don't do in Ukraine what we need to do going Amish won't help.
@@richardmeyeroff7397I was watching a documentary, where a Chinese citizen paid for a product from a vending machine by presenting their face to the camera. This is the same sort of identity control that Israel has. In New Zealand, some supermarket chains are trialing facial recognition to ban convicted thieves from shopping. They say it is a self-contained system, but only high security government agencies can afford that level of isolation. And even then, that did not stop 'concerned' service personnel from passing information to the press.
Where do we 'draw the line' when it comes to a business going broke, due to theft and preventing the 'down on their luck' or 'mentally unwell' citizens from feeding their 'cry for help' ? There needs to be an extra level of intervention but there are very few countries in the world that have the resources for Mental Health Care at this time.
We are far from the perfect utopia presented in Sci-Fi futuristic societies. There is a price to pay for saving every baby we can with modern science. That is the weakening of our species genetically, but the strengthening of our species with greater diversity in thinking for art and for science. But how weak do we want to get?
As a trek fan I really enjoyed the intro. Funny and also disturbingly accurate.
It's inevitable. Biology is just one step of evolution.
So just chill out and enjoy life 💟🌌☮️
@@eSKAone- you may have a point.
Another one - kernel level anti-cheat. Many AAA games include these and don't make it obvious that you are opting into installing them.
cough cough Helldivers 2 cough cough. I wanted to check the game but thats keeping me away from it
weird that the implication is that i use the computer all day instead of reading real books, and hanging out with my friends IRL, and doing things in the analog world , listening to music on cassette, writing in journals
"I am sorry, but I couldn't resist the urge. It's my character" - politicians and CEOs
“What is its nature?” Hannibal Lecter
This is why I made the switch to Graphene OS a few weeks ago. It's an operating system for the Google Pixel that essentially de-googles your phone.
My favorite channel. Always insightful
the frog thesis also got old. We are currently sitting in a steam boiler. The only question left was whether the cauldron would explode or the steam on the whistle.
I really appreciate you making this video and I have some criticisms on it as well. Let me preface this as hopefully this message lands upon your eyes. I work I cyber security and grew up in what many would call the hacking scene.
I've shared similar sentiments and it was made apparent how bad it was during the Hong Kong extradition bill protests which I assisted with. I'm an American, my beliefs are definitely known on privacy and right to repair (and yet I have a Google account albeit seldom used but it's used to write comments like this) but we helped people in the most heavily data restricted and monitored place on earth protest, communicate, and organize without getting their door kicked down and the amount of information and cyber warfare we saw I haven't seen since the invasion of Ukraine.
The way you summarized this is fantastic and I'll definitely share this video. As it's an eye opener for some people. I used the exact same frog in a pot analogy.
So my criticism? You make it sound like it's impossible to be private nowadays and while it's very very hard. It's not impossible, none of the people we worked with in Hong Kong were arrested and people who did much less were. We were successful in that. This is definitely a step one making sure people are aware. It's education and a starting point. But it comes across as a futile effort. There's levels of privacy that you must adapt to your life. It can be something as simple as knowing what data is collected and specifically how it can be used in a worst case scenario and how it's used in a common scenario. Which this does well. A video on mitigation and levels you can take in your life and control your digital footprint would be good. I do not know your background and if you aren't for certain what would help. I would tell you every method known to man if you could summerize it this well. But I really want people to know it's not a hopeless endeavor and I got proof of that working in Hong Kong and other hostile nations where organization is nearly impossible. Basically I just really hope you make a part 2. Expanding on the topic or giving some resources, changes, and habits people can get into to not contribute to this collection. Bare minimum for themselves.
This is not me saying this is a bad video it's fantastic it's good enough enough I logged in and left this comment which I rarely do. I hope you see this and consider it and if you aren't for sure what can even be done. Let me know any method you'd like to be contacted and I'll write absolutely everything I know. I was a team lead of a now defunct company called Project Insecurity which only had a few members less than 10 and we made it on the news repeatedly for our findings affecting millions in the Healthcare industry it was cyber security firm started by a friend of mine and we did pretty notable high profile work. If there is anything I can do to help make a follow up onto this video. I absolutely will take the time out of my day to answer any questions about anything. I have been a very long subscriber and I just was very suprised when I saw this video felt I needed to say something. It's very appriciated and this will likely end up being a reccomended video from the EFF. Take care and best wishes sorry for the lengthy message just passionate about the subject and felt I should probably introduce myself somewhat to even get a response should you see this message.
Arr, Patrick Stewart from Star Trek TNG👍
I mostly love the tech, stuff like Google maps & Street view are amazing. Just don’t use it if you've something to hide.
Oh, I love you so much for starting the video with what I think is my second favorite quote ever!
Where are the lawmakers, stopping this data collection? Why is data collection not illegal yet?
This is why open-source software is so important. Everybody should try Linux if they want to escape the Silicon Valley surveillance ecosystem
One of your best. Well done!
20 years ago everything was different
I woke up, got to work, got home, eat and slept
now 20 years later it's a new era
I wake up, get to work, get home, eat and sleep
You should eat at work.
seriously, how can I search for something and not get ads about it for weeks and weeks? I searched for a cheaper insurance and all I get is annoying insurance ads. Even me typing car insurance here will probably get me more of them. But I still have to search for it. So frustrating.
I see Big Brother, is alive and well.
The only way this could have been any better would be to substitute Hypnotoad for the frog at the end !:-) 🐸
Thank you, Paul. A subject that has been well covered but you highlight important differences. Thank you
I loved the ominous last sentence…absolutely sums it up. You do great work. Thanks.
I did so good staying away from TikTok just to get sucked into short form by Instagram and yt shorts
Very very important topic ! Tnx. Alot!
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my ad profile must be hilarious, they're like he uses adblock on every site and talks about how rich people need to be persecuted we can't even sell him anything and he doesn't vote
Why not try and move the Overton Window a little bit towards what you think the world should be like by voting? No, it won't change anything overnight, but it'll help the next generation of people who share your views.
It's a shame your new/current videos don't get as many views as your old stuff.
If RUclips doesn't work out I bet you could start a wildly successful shirt business.
I can chose not to use a smartphone, but I need a car. I’ll be sticking with old school cars.
You can’t control my mind if I don’t have a mind.🤪
Amazing how many people are completely ignorant to this...... Tho' I have to say, as a consumer of "personal" data, it's massively useful in my work and have recently done a huge piece profiling around 50,000 households - includes health, wellbeing, pay, and financial profiles.
Very interesting video! Should have made it 10-15 years ago but better late then never!
Maybe a follow up video with some more horrifying and real life incidents to really show that online privacy is important.
Love
Well done Paul 👍👍
Double plus ungood
The only thing more fascinating than your videos are your shirt choices. Please keep on keeping on.
Best of both worlds, opening scene. :)
Combining different data sets according to agenda, produces surprisingly accurate prediction. Make sure the powers that exist, by code (computing) or by office, are those you truly desire
Loved the opening ‘You will serve us’ :-)
loved the best of both worlds intro
Best part is that even if you dont use facebook or any other social media, they still gather your data, as every site that use their buttons/plugin for sharing/saving see what site you visit as they store your ip/hwid/browser id/account on site.
There are browser extensions to help with that.
"When the service is free, YOU are the product."
Nice idea, sell to another country cars with video recording, phones with cameras and microphones (obviously) that always in a people's pocket, security cameras with "cloud services", "telemetry", video door bells etc - and people paying out of their own pocket for all of that. Smart!
I only have to discuss something with someone with my phone within earshot for the ads to start to appear relating to my discussion. It does sometimes get things wrong though. I live near an airport and often drive around the perimeter and past the entrance. I started to get adverts for Gulfstream Jets (perhaps the algorithm thinks I can afford one?)
I turned that off long ago. Sadly, whoever I'm talking to hasn't, so they still slip through sometimes, but see ads nowhere near as often as when I had apps allowed mic access.
A grid blackout begins to look more appealing by the day. 😂
Thanks! 👍🙂
Very valid, I've been saying this for the last 5-10 years, although its been going probably alot longer.
With the collection of enough data future trends can be ascertained. One could get very rich if able to get ahead of the future.
13:45. At the top of the page is the sentence: "Thanks go to all our Patreons for thier ongoing support"; the word their is misspelled as "thier."
Another good addition to this conversation can be found with Adam Alter's book Irresistible. I would highly recommend this book if you would like to understand more about how this Tech change around us, or the world as it is for younger generations, has targeted and harvested us on a daily basis. Moderation of one self is key!
I stay away from cloud connected IoT devices (I usually build my own, but there are plenty of LAN-only devices available nowdays). I'll never buy a car that connects to the internet. When I buy a smartphone, the first thing I do is replace its OS with a more privacy friendly one. I chat using Signal and Telegram, or just use plain old telephone and SMS. I use a browser with heightened privacy settings. I limit my social media usage to basically only RUclips, and even that I only open in the browser. The times I use other social media services (FB or IG or X), I do not log in, and again, only open them in my browser.
Am I safe? Safer than most other people, at least.
Why would anyone use the frog analogy if they know it's not "technically correct"? :-o Technically incorrect is the worst kind of incorrect.
It's even worse because the original experiment involved removing the frog's brain and seeing if it would jump out.
Thanks for the reminder. We are the product now. As YT sketch comedian Ryan George said in one of his videos on this, "This is the Internet we built." Free, but not really.
Lots of die-hard ultra-nerd Droid fans watching this video and wondering what happened to their regular nerd-tech fix - and even worse, being expected to think about something complicated for a change...
You always have the best shirts .
Never had a Snapchat, TicTacToc, Reddit, or Instagram account. I kicked Twitter to the curb years ago and rarely log on to FB. My only vice is YT. :-)
It is interesing that only now those things are discussed in the U.S. In Europe (especially in Germany) the discussion is ongoing for many years already.
Very good - and thought provoking. But what do we do about it. What CAN we do about it? We have entered into a Faustian pact, and this is the result - we get a 'free' internet, but we pay with our data and our loss of privacy.
But, even if we withdrew from the 'free' internet service model, and paid for everything we receive/use, that would make no difference, as all these organisations would still be collecting our data.
Personally, I think the only answer is a UN level right to privacy and the implied ownership of our personal data (ie the default would be that no one could use or data without our specific permission - and, perhaps, paying us for it). This wouldn't entirely solve the problem, as no doubt services like Facebook would simply require us to give permission to use our data in order to use their service. But it should mean that we can safeguard our data if we opt for paid services, so at least the choice would be there - retain privacy, but pay for the internet.
And, of course, none of that would stop Tesla, government agencies, foreign bad actors, etc from gathering all the rest of our smartphone/car/etc data...
I feel like a frog.
The frog thing is a clever way to represent MSM propaganda
And the powers that be are the scorpion
@@jr2904 I guess your comment wont be deleted😆
VPN adblocker and no TV. all spam reported or blocked not signed up to any mailing lists have no social media other than RUclips. Life is sweet.
Great video..❤
2:40 Google + that dont exist any more.
I, as an individual, am concerned with where our data ends up and what it is used for.
But I'm MUCH MORE concerned with the influence of social media mind space. How it heightens our egos and leads us astray from being grounded in reality and the now.
I received targeted advertising from being a little stuffed up in the morning from 🚬 smoking cigarettes without ever using a word about the problem or symptoms, the advertising was based on sounds I made clearing out my throat. I wouldnt be surprised if Next they can tell when you're shoes sound worn and remind you that u need new shoes before you think it
Don't own a smart watch, only carry my phone when at work and will never afford a Telsa 😊
Cache Rules Everything Around Me, C.R.E.A.M. get the cookies, giga gigabytes yall 🎵🎵
The frog thing will haunt me forever,ad infinitum....
Not much even moves a brow now, thank you....
I think??🥺
Good thing this didn't come with a VPN advertisement
If something is free then you're the commodity.
All they know about me is I look exactly like a Collie Dog and hate tories.
Shirts! Where can I get hold of those awesome shirts?
I've never owned a smart phone, smart watch or a car. Yes, I do use Internet services, but have recently ditched Google as much as I can.
Sooooo basically we live in a cyberpunk corpo dystopia but without body augmentation.
I think that they have not realised yet that people have phones because they are deemed a net personal benefit in their lives. The tipping point is fast approaching where they will kill the golden goose and they will deserve to.
Government is also approaching that same point where they cease to be a net beneficial in the lives of there citizenry. We tolerate ineptitude and corruption if there’s a balancing advantage. That advantage is growing steadily less apparent.
You forgot to mention gen sequencing / genome mapping which has become all the rage the last few years... people paying money to give a way their most private of all information...
AI seems pretty rubbish if the number of things chatGPT get's completely wrong, are anything to go by. I kept using it to lazily perform simple kinetic energy calculations quicker than I could - then I started to think I must have misunderstood certain things until some qualified people assured me it was getting the calculations wrong half the time. Nothing too complex - just things like how much longer it would take a car to slow down from twice the original speed. I started to suspect it wasn't faking intelligence too well when it kept quoting the height in an experiment in JOULES and even carried on doing so after it acknowledged this mistake ... saying "here is the corrected version" - still quoting height in Joules.
You really need gpt4 with code interpreter for solving equations. It gets a lot more accurate when it can execute python scripts.
All GPT is, is a Large Language Model (LLM). All it's doing is predicting what's the best next token to the current context. One token is usually a part of a word (a couple of letters). Afaik, GPT 3.5 (the free version of ChatGPT) has 4096 tokens. The entire conversation is being run through a deep neural network which at the end produces probabilities for all the tokens and the one with the highest probability is used, then the process repeats.
That's all it does. It cannot use a calculator or browse the web.
What I'm trying to get to here is that using LLMs to solve mathematical and logical problems is not a good idea and most certainly a terrible way to judge its effectiveness.
Almost as if it's a Chatbot and not a calculator.
@@choo_choo_ Point taken - but it begs the question why they say give it 2 years and then it should be able to do those things... will it then be a calculator or a chatbot or both?
@@stephenbrough8132 It's just cope from AI bros. General AI is just that, general. Chat GPT is great for making little scripts, or cheating on your essays, but it's built off of language models. Language models scraped from text on the internet. If the answers aren't already there, or in sufficient quantity, it just ain't gonna know it. Nor will it, for that matter. Again, it's a language model, not a math one. The reason it can do basic scripts and programming is because you can technically classify "programming languages" as language. But actual complex math? Nah. It's simply not what it's for or particularly good at. Nor should it really ever be good for that. Leave that for an AI dedicated to that purpose instead of cobbling together an AI that can do many things, but not very well at any of them.
Infomercial for Ground News ;). but jokes aside, this situation came with warning in and screaming anouncement right from the start. The intentions of calming voices sounded already then like Pied Piper song. So who's suprized now? I'm not even disturbed by that. It was only a matter of time for the personal information begeting capitalized.
There is no free ride life always cost something. This is the price for the life that we want to live. Noone crys when something is free.
Thanks Paul.....
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Ive spoken about topics on whatsapp groups, closed whatsapp and opened youtube and had those exact topics displayed as the first videos on the home page,
In the time span of me sending like 3 messages, closing whatsapp and opening youtube they had read the conversation, analyzed whos chats were whos and updated my youtube algorithm to show videos on the exact topic being spoken about in whatsapp and i know its not just coincidence because ive never watched or searched for amything we were talking about in whatsapp 😂
And this is why I don't have social media.
I live in N GA not far from TN and NC. So I turn off my phone and leave the house. When I get to TN, I turn my phone on and get some gas, then turn it right back off. Then I hop over to NC and turn the phone back on. I get some BBQ and turn the phone off again. Then I drive back home and after a few hours turn the phone back on. This drives the data collectors crazy.
Nobody cares. It only drives you crazy.
Power is still available even when the phone is off these days, and you can't usually remove the battery anymore, either
I hope this is a joke, else you’re massively wasting your time and energy.
if only you knew how bad things really are
If you put a frog in a pot of water it will jump out no matter what the temperature. You try keeping one in there. You need to put the lid on.
I feel more people need to learn about free and open source alternatives to software and services that make you the product. From operating systems, to CAD software, to maps, to social media there's so many FOSS projects out there waiting for you to give them a try. Ditch the greedy companies and check out what community development can do!
I got off facebook, Twitter etc after they started selling me products I had told no-one I was considering purchasing, it felt invasive. I rarely use a cellphone except for emergencies, I don't even have a sim in it. But I am a gmail and youtube junky so google has me by the nads I guess....
A government's nightmare must be people who are into vintage cars, retro phones, and typewriters
Not really, to few of them
You should watch the battle star galactic mini series from about 2002. They don’t deal with smart phones, but they go full retro to keep the cylons from wirelessly taking over their spaceships.
I think Curious Droid channel is being censored... I had videos saved to my lists: not there now. Never get notifications. Recently did a search... and couldn't find the channel until I stumbled across one of the videos buried in a huge list of videos on the same topic. A lot of Joe Scott vids show up but only one Curious Droid Video. Share this work people - it's awesome and it is knowledge/fact based. Share it and raise all intellectual oars!! Also: Thank you for doing this vids! ~ Sean.