Why not use a DNS based solution like nextdns? or an extension like wipr?

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This is amazingly pedantic, I love it.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

I found this super interesting, especially driving the audio

> you're probably just as pissed as 60% of Americans

Yet you voted for it

To be fair, most of their votes don't actually count.

And even with our westminster system, One nation has swept the right wing. Considering how many seats they will likely get in the next election, my high horse has shrunk a fair bit.

Me? I didn't vote for the orange Nazi

Because you think by voting for the other person AI companies and USA government wouldn't misuse all the data they hoard?

Why do you think I like them or support those actions?

Do you support everything the Klingon Empire does? That doesn't seem like the Worf I know. The Worf I know can distinguish the people of a civilization from the leaders of their societies. To conflate them just creates the problems you are criticizing

The klingon empire isn't a democracy, we don't delude ourselves that simply swapping one single person would have made a difference.

The same fact is true in a democracy. A democracy specifically is set up so just a single person doesn't rule. That's called a dictatorship.

But you turn a democracy into a dictatorship through tribalism. So forgive me if I get mad at you trying to place me into a nice well defined box. You're helping erode the democracy I (and so many others) desperately want to maintain (and improve).

What would Worf do?

I'm certain he wouldn't have done what you did

Sorry that you're being blamed. People have a pretty negative sentiment towards Americans in general right now because we have been watching helplessly in horror as our best friend tears things down.

I have friends in blue states who didn't vote because it wouldn't have changed the outcome given the electoral college - it's unfair to blame them for not participating as they were never able to in the first place.

Not that democrats are angels. You guys are damned if you're blue / (extra) damned if you're red - given the state of both options.

I appreciate that you're doing what you can

Consider that USA's government logic is: "if we don't like a government we will kill civilians until they rebel and put a government we like". See Cuba for example.

So, by their own metric, they aren't helpless at all and should appreciate other countries aren't as savage as they are with civilians, instead of complaining.

Look Worf, I'm just one human. You don't know me. You don't know what I'm doing or not doing. But I know you're making our situation worse and I know you're not living up to the ethics of your namesake

I feel like you'd be taking on a lot of pain for no real benefits though?

I did this half a year ago and it was fine for me. One of the benefits is of course privacy. For instance, I noticed that ads get completely out of touch which proved to me that I'm being tracked less.

Also never have that feeling anymore that my phone is spying on me.

Any iPhone user with a measure of privacy knowledge will experience the same.

I'm using NextDNS for DNS level ad blocking as well as iOS built in tools, and I get ads for women's hygiene products (I'm male), travel, dining, server parts, cars, and everything in between.

The main difference between Android and iOS is (or used to be?) that Android typically phones home with everything, frequently visited locations, calendar appointments, voice commands. On iOS most of that runs on-device. Siri voice to text/text to voice runs on device, various "ai" things in photos runs on-device, frequently visited locations are device local.

Apple still pushes ads to you. I can't recall how many times I saw ads in the App Store, and how many times they tried to push me into subscribing to whatever nonsense their executives' KPIs demanded (Apple Arcade+? News+? Music+?). No matter how many times I told Apple "No," they just kept pushing it. And now ads are coming to Apple Maps as well.

GrapheneOS has zero ads in the OS and main services.

real benefits: being able to install free software

> it was filled with ads

You bought a phone from an advertising company?

All factory operating systems come with ads and bloat and spyware, Apple/Samsung included. Google remains the lesser of all other evils because at least to date, they offer an open source OS, bootloader unlocking, and root. A community driven mobile OS is absolutely where we should go, but for now and the foreseeable future you can call a Lyft, deposit a check (in America), and do other mainstream tasks on AOSP flavors without Google/Apple/Samsung having to know anything about it. It's never been easier to make the user friendly choice too: https://grapheneos.org/install/web

It's not like buying from Samsung is any better.

for some reason i read that in archer(animated) voice.

Probably because it's a dumb useless comment in the same vein as most of that show.

I read this in a whiny high pitched voice with my nose and lower lip pulled up.

Don't recall my old nexus devices having ads in the OS. Disappointing where Google has taken this.

Technically they already did a built in ad with Android KitKat. Mostly benign, but I do remember being at an Android event and KitKats samples being given out to everyone. As well as KitKat wrappers being branded with the Android logo for a while.

Turns out a marketing company doesn't care about your privacy go figure

Now that is an interesting question