originally posted by: worldstarcountry
My phone is a flip phone, I probably have it on me less than 50% of the time and it has no apps. It is just a phone. if one's entire life and finances
can be in jeopardy by losing a simple gadget, than as a smart human one is doing something terribly wrong. A gadget should just be a gadget, not a
remotely accessible storage device for all of your financial accounts and identity information.
people only need to stop volunteering their personal data everywhere they go for rewards points or dollar discounts at fast food chains. If you do not
disclose data, data will not be stolen. One must become a walking void where no data is generate. No location data pinging on your phone, no personal
information stored in a dozen apps. No phone numbers at point of sale. No email for promotions and discounts. Just buy your stuff, preferably with
cash, and go on with your life. It is easy, humans have only been doing it for like ten thousand or more years.
This here!!!
Will work only for us old farts who know the time before internet, spyPhones and doing everything online. I only pay cash everywhere but i live in
Germany and it is the norm here. For Amazon, a must nowadays because unfortunately, you now have to rely on Amazon because you get ripped off with
prices in retail stores while they tell you anyway: “We don't have it in stock, we have to order it”. Then I prefer to order directly myself, it's
quicker, cheaper and I can save myself the trip to the store and do better things in the meantime. So for Amazon i buy those gift cards with cash,
they go up to 500 Euros and i can buy as many as i want.
I use a VPN, i don´t know how many ad-blockers, cookie killers and a lot of software to make it not too easy to spy on me and bomb me with ads. I am
pretty sure all that doesn´t really help if someone wants really to spy on you but i want to make it harder for all those big tech businesses to spy
on me and sell my data to whomever. I don´t even feel to well using only a simple cell phone instead of a spyPhone because they can locate your cell
phone but not as precise as a SpyPhone that is constantly connected to the internet and sending data 24/7.
E-Mail? I only use it when I have to register an account and never look in there because nothing important can come in there as I don't do anything
important over the internet and i know exactly zero people who use e-mail to write letters or send pictures or videos or whatever. I would never in my
life put my bank account details or anything like that on the internet only because, for example, it's more convenient than buying gift vouchers with
cash in the store.
When i search for myself in the web i find exactly - nothing. Because from the very first steps in the internet i was very careful to hide my identity
as good as possible. Not because i am a professional pirate or criminal or terrorist but because my personal data belongs to me and i want to decide
what happens to it. I don´t want anybody to sell my personal data and make lots of money and turn me into a glass person by that.
In my whole life i never even paid with card, only cash. But it's really no problem in Germany not to use all these "great new achievements which make
life only better", not to own a spyPhone and to pay for everything with cash everywhere, these are the advantages of a developing country when it
comes to mobile and internet coverage and speed. In many jobs they want you to have WhatsApp for the work on your phone. Best thing to tell them is
that they are free to gift me a spyPhone, contract included and WhatsApp installed, which would only be switched on during working hours anyway. And
that i have a phone number and that they can call me but only if something really important happens. You get zero calls by that because they are too
afraid nowadays to talk to people on a phone and all that BS they send you on WhatsApp is not important enough to call people, not important at all.
They want to pretend you have a community, a family at your workplace that doesn't exist and bother you with work stuff outside your working hours.
But without me!
And it is no problem. There are still phones around, there is still cash and it still is the norm, there's still a post office and official stuff is
best done this way anyway. At least here in Germany growing up with the knowledge that, above all, the person in charge does not need to know
everything, has a lot to do with Hitler's Germany and the former GDR, this, in my opinion, extremely sensible attitude. I always feel sorry for people
in other countries who are forced to put up with all this dystopian sh!t, where you can't even give a beggar some change anymore and you can't do
anything without a spyPhone plus internet, neither shopping in a store nor taking even the bus, a taxi or whatever. These people are completely naked
to anyone who has a bit knowledge of how to search the web or who has the money to pay people for that job.
edit on 7-9-2024 by DerBeobachter2 because: (no reason given)