Comment by drnick1

Comment by drnick1 3 days ago

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Yes, and that's very sad. However the solutions are pretty obvious:

Car -> unplug the cellular modem (more or less easy)

TV -> used as dumb monitor with a Linux HTPC

Phone -> GrapheneOS

PC -> Linux

Social media -> /dev/null

Email/DNS/cloud -> my own

The real issue is that most people are not aware of these issues and may even (unintentionally) compromise your own privacy by posting information or pictures of you to Facebook or other similar places.

rglynn 2 days ago

> Social media -> /dev/null

That made me chuckle, absolutely right though!

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  • stavros 2 days ago

    I love how these comments are made on a social media website.

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    • drnick1 2 days ago

      HN is not a social media platform in the traditional sense. For one, it is completely anonymous, unless your "handle" is somehow linked to a real identity (by choice or otherwise). It's very, very different from posting every aspect of your life on a platform like Facebook.

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      • gnabgib a day ago

        Anonymousness does not make a platform unsocial (Twitter, 4chan, 8chan, reddit, HN, IRC, PlentyOfFish, X, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Tinder, StumbleUpon, FourSquare, BeReal, WhatsApp, democratic voting, any forum, YouTube, Wikipedia, any BBS)

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