A Boring Dystopia

Ok, this has got to stop, soon we'll need separate sound isolated anechoic chambers containing dedicated burner devices for use with specific services online, set up so that we can only interact with them wearing hazmat gear.

The tech giants quest for ever more data about us needs to stop, and the executives who oversee them needs to see consequences beyond the operating budget increasing continously.

We have been told that individually targeted ads are not cost effective, that the tech giants just want to categorize their users in broad categories, yet the tech giants keep trying to collect more and more.

And with all of this information collected on us, we still gets shitty advertising, completely miss targeted.

From the linked source

We disclose a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes.

Never, ever install meta apps on your devices people! If you have to use them, do it via browser.

So this just sent me on a learning trip to see if there's a way to sandbox apps. Turns out there's an easy app on the play store called 'Island' which, on most devices, lets you install apps as a second 'sandboxed' user.

After a few minutes of playing, it seems to work well.

If this continues to escalate, it would be a lot simpler to put Zuckerberg in a private secure cell, rather than every app each of us use.

Is there an article connected to this information???