AAA…HaHaHaHaHa!
“Come on. I want you to do it, I want you to do it. Come on, HIT ME!”

I’m almost certain there will be an ADB hack to bring this process down to a couple min. Or faster

It only took me ~10min to install GrapheneOS. A whole new OS!
Changing a single setting should be super quick.

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Not at all. Of course it is.

Just pointing out there are many non-corporate closed source products.

Corporate and closed source are two separate things.

Privacy and open source are two separate things.

I used it for almost a year.
It took me ~2 months to find, understand, and tweak settings until I stopped running into issues with sites at least one every couple weeks.

I understand what you were asking for. People ask for what they imagine. What they can imagine isn’t always what they want. Sometimes an entirely different idea can work better than they imagined.

By what you wrote, you want to be able to access Facebook and Instagram anonymously. The essayist most reliable way to do that is with a disposable account. Work around sites aren’t all that reliable. They work for a time then get swatted down, or limited in some way.

I made my Instagram account several years ago. I think I posted a couple photos at the beginning, now that I’m thinking of it.
Try generating 2-3 random AI images and posting them. Just to establish the account at the beginning.

It also makes sense that they’re more strict now. It may not work anyway.

I just made a dummy account. No posts no follows. I only use for occasional links people send me.

And it breaks sooo many sites.
Waterfox, is Firefox that just works.

If you intentionally obscure a feature, people won’t use it.
If you make it the default, they will.

Yah. It had customizations nobody has anymore.

It wasn’t locked down. I rooted it, installed a few OS’s, it even ran Linux.

I understand the point of the article. I’m saying since the very beginning, the only limits on what smartphones can do, have been what software ‘they’ want you to run.

A CPU is a CPU. Some are faster or slower, but they can all do anything.

They have been since the beginning.
That’s literally why I got an OG Motorola Droid. I said to myself “I can have a full computer in my pocket!”

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I can see your argument has value in many situations.
But shame and ridicule are important social tools to shape behavior. Especially behavior of people with power and influence. Calling out dumb shit as dumb shit, is just as important as basic digital training for thease people.

50/50 maybe
Not sure

Users are persuaded in chats initiated by the hackers to divulge security verification and pin codes, ​giving them access to personal accounts and group chats, they said ​in a statement.

So we’re talking about the most basic social engineering. Nothing clever or novel. The kind of thing only your grandparents would fall for these days. Solid PSA 👍

It’s a bit like walking through the park every day shouting at people, and not wanting anyone to know who you are. Eventually they’d figure it out.