• comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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    6 months ago

    What they are doing is way worse tban what you understood.

    These QR codes will show on your Desktop PC and you will need an Android phone or an iOS device with a logged in Google QR code app to get past it.

      • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        Ayup that has been the holy grail of big tech.

        They are most of the way there today. Make Identity Resolution inescapable. Bing bang boom.

        It is more than just phones and lappys too. It’s everything. That smart TV. That fitness watch. That automobile. That streaming music service. The ebook reader you got as a birthday gift.

        Your behavior across every single device is data gold. This is today’s reality.

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      6 months ago

      Guess I’m not going to Youtube, then.

      I see a future where we have our mandated government ID shitphone for banking, corpo and government suchn’shit, and the laptop we access Anna’s, Yggdrasil and TOR with.

      and the days go by!

      Not exactly same as it ever was, but seems kinda 2007 to me. I doubt any Lemmy instance or i2p site will enforce Google’s QRcode spy-proxy.

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        6 months ago

        My current GraphineOS phone will probably be my last smartphone. I’ll be moving to a dumb phone and a data hotspot connected to some type of cyberdeck. Will have that thing locked down, blocking known abusive companies like Google. Honestly could care less about using any service that touches them.

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          30 days ago

          But texting and calli g without signal is so unsecure. Unless you have a reliable source of burner phones and sims

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            30 days ago

            I almost never call and I don’t use SMS so its mostly a last ditch effort thing. The hotspot+cyberdeck will be my main means of communication.