Google is evil. If you have to remind yourself not to be evil, you’re evil. If you get tired of having to remind yourself not be evil, and therefore stop reminding yourself, then you’re evil.
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What is so hard about these situations is normies absolutely do not understand the problems with certain operating systems and OSes and normie tracking Apps.
I applied for a job and a recruiter harassed me over having a proton.me address, going "Well I've never heard of that." How do I respond to that? "I'm sorry you're an idiot?"
This is what Thomas-Johnson gets for using normie software like the rest of the oblivious. Because 99.99 percent of people will continue to look like they smelled rotten eggs whenever non-normie Apps or services are brought up, even when things like this continue to happen, normies will not change. It's like global warming: everyone intelligent knows we are headed toward disaster, metaphorically steering the ship into the icebergs, and we are on a collision course with death; normies do not care. With the psychopathic and nihilistic rich and idiotic religious people controlling the narrative, you would think normies would notice; they do not. I do not feel sorry for this person. He used google. What outcome should he have expected? For them to adhere to their policies?
Instead of thinking of people in two groups, dumb normies and the group you are in, why not try thinking of them as, in the know and not yet in the know. For instance, there was a time when you weren't in the know about Proton.me, and someone explained it to you, because that's the way we make big changes in the world, by gathering numbers. The more people that we can get on the, in the know, side, the more power in our numbers we can use.
So, when you find someone who doesn't know, sell the thing to them with a couple of well worded sentences. Things like, if you really care about your privacy, you use applications that are privacy friendly, for now. Like...fill in blanks.
If you can't think what to say, ask yourself why you use it.
That reasoning is a lot like saying a fish in the ocean is just a ballerina waiting to happen. No one can teach the religious anything until they stop being fantasy prone.
Are we seriously suggesting even with half a grain of salt that Samsung wouldn't do the very same?
Google's just the first house on the street, they'll all gladly snitch on you.
Samsung at least isn't American. There's some level of effort required to get a foreign company to provide information.
Google just pisses it out because they can.
There are free and open source messenger apps for those that care. The one I use is Fossify Messenger, and it's fairly bare bones but I'm not really a texting power user, so it's perfectly fine for my use case
"FUCK NO!! I ain’t giving a way for the government to get everything without a warrant. Google can eat shit!"
What if I were to tell you that the government does in fact got most of you through official records? Like, run a public search on yourself. You're already on record.
Google is the least of your problems, in comparison. You're on the hook already.
Oddly, searching myself, through name or public name doesn't yield shit.
What if I were to tell you that the government does in fact got most of you through official records?
It doesn't have my conversations with people.