Schwim Dandy

  • 3 Posts
  • 176 Comments
Joined 6 months ago
cake
Cake day: March 28th, 2024

help-circle
  • “Imagine browsing without trackers following you everywhere or your phone’s performance lagging because of ads. That’s the kind of freedom GrapheneOS promises.”

    It’s hard to take the sales pitch seriously after such disingenuous statements such as this. The OS itself doesn’t serve ads, but rather the apps you install and the web pages you visit. As well, as soon as you browse the web or install one of your most loved popular apps, you’re being tracked. For the average user, the one that wants to use the same apps on the gOS OS that they do on stock android, they will be faced with basically the same ads and the same tracking.











  • Can I ask why you can’t let them talk their nonsense? I know you don’t think you can change them so if you choose to hang out with them, why can’t you just let them be them? I’m not telling you that you should hang out with them, just that joining in on their discussion is a zero sum game.

    I chose not to interact with family any longer and haven’t spoken to any of them in years. Not out of anger or spite but simply because none of us were getting anything positive from the relationship.