I don’t think it is possible.
I also think people are blowing this WAY out of proportion and don’t even realize their own hypocrisy.
Extreme example: Jewish people happily drive Ford cars, even though Henry Ford was the only American mentioned in Mein Kampf, specifically for his hatred of Jews.
owner of said product has openly stated that they hate your very existence
Of all the things that didn’t happen, this didn’t happen the most.
What’s the benefit for them?
Not being targeted by a President.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/business/ceos-trump-revenge-nightcap/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics/trump-prosecute-political-opponents/index.html
Why they wouldn’t want to please previous administrations?
Those administrations weren’t targeting them.
I think it’s always about the money, plain and simple. If there is a threat to their gravy train, they will bend over backwards to keep it going. Otherwise, they don’t care about you.
I find it disappointing that people interested in privacy would have such little respect for a private individual’s right to have their own thoughts.
Ding ding ding.
It seems the vast majority of people do NOT want to allow speech they don’t like, no matter the consequences. That requires too much forward thinking. Excuse me while I watch history repeat itself…
Maybe, but if anything bad happens to originate from that number, the port history is still visible and now they have a suspect.
any carrier within range can still potentially track you, maybe not with airplane mode but Snowden says don’t trust that
GPS still “works” without any signal, service or net access
AGPS mandate forces 911 calls to reveal your location
For max privacy without going completely analog you’d want a device with NO cellular radio at all
Play App Signing is required for new apps.
Also now required is giving up your government identity document to google in order to keep publishing on the play store.
not google
This is not true… play store now requires you to give up your signing keys to google so they can sign the app themselves after injecting whatever they feel like. F-Droid does the same because they also compile your apps for you. Another reason some don’t trust F-Droid (or Signal, Tor and a bunch of other free/open source software for that matter) is that they received funding from OTF which is funded by the US government and some people don’t like that. And yes I know computers and the internet also came from the government /shrug
I have no skin in this game, I am not intentionally trying to spread any FUD (but I realize some people will still claim so, they are free to do so), just relaying information I have seen elsewhere. Happy to provide sources if anyone likes.
How so?