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I know quite some people who do by conscious decision not own a smartphone considering these are surveillance bugs with an inbuilt phone function, for which you even have to pay.


not to be persnickety, but you don't have to pay for cellular service. the trackability you're criticizing is not inherent to the smartphone concept.


The trackability is not inherent to the cellular service, but to the sensor hardware, operating system, and business model.


Cellular service is very much inherently trackable. See cellular triangulation.


And their lives are made unnecessarily difficult.


Wat den eenen sin Uhl, is den annern sin Nachtigall.


За кокошка няма прошка, за милиони няма закони!




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