‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
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because normal websites and normal browsers have inbuilt protections for you.
Ding ding ding.
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Eh. The internet was always shit because of scammers and useful idiots.
Really the only way to make it not-shit is to have governments step in and protect us from what useful idiots have been conditioned to accept as normal.
Governments only serve rich people though, so we're SOL.
It's a cultural problem.
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That's what you get, honestly.
Hopefully you can learn from this and not waste your money on garbage.
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I'd still be using my S8, but I got a free phone sent to me from Visible because I refused to upgrade.
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How about you get some courage and drop your brand loyalty?
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Even if “better” is just lack of nags.
Well, they just swap nags from "download out app" to "rate our app" no matter what you do, you'll be nagged...
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Smartphones are objectively better than flip phones.
The flip phone praise comes from useful idiots looking up to children who lack self-control.
It's all bass-ackwards, but that's how far we've strayed from the truth.
The powers that be are happy, though. We're just not one of them.
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Have you tried... self-control?
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For some things it's more convenient for customers. For others, it's more convenient for businesses.
We, as customers, need to promote what's convenient for us while ignoring what's convenient for businesses.
Keep in mind: we are not on the same side as the people taking our money.
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Flipphones.... I want a full keyboard phone again. Maybe even a slider full keyboard. Those were the days.
Apps... I evade most apps as much as i can or if i must use closed source apps, i will put them in a secondary profile.
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I remember toolbar days.... I used to lov--- sorry i admit this ... Installing them .... shivers for my sins
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No Virtua Girl?
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Perhaps his friends do not have smart phones, because they do not want smart phones.
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If a person uses a libre VoIP app, there is no need for cell service
I don't follow. Don't you need internet for VoIP? Unless the point is to have a phone that gets zero connection while outside a wifi, which sounds kinda pointless?
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I'm young and I fucking hate apps. I have android phone without a google account which works well for the most part. I'm too dumb to install LineageOS. and Linux phones aren't really an option in the US.
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Correct, use VoIP with wi-fi service instead of cell and data. It also makes the calls untraceable for location for best privacy practices. There's no way to trace where in the world a phone is if using wi-fi to call standard phone numbers. For personal calling, not a work phone, some people don't care about messages and calling when they are out walking, shopping, attending events. They want to focus on the real world around them, not phone stuff.
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You've never seen The Big Bang Theory?
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Have you looked at Obtainium? It pulls apps directly from their release page, or f-droid repos.
