>>298261Brother, imagine there are two phones. One sends data to CPC and other one to CPC AND CIA. You know that the first one definitely sends all your data, but you dont know dat second one sends your data. Choice is obvious
Now imagine you found out dat the phone also sends data and far worse than first one. Now you found second option, phone which doesnt send your data and you can be sure that it doesnt but you are not trusting the brand and second one that you trust brand but the phone sends some data to CIA. You choose first second one
Then you find out that the phone still sends data to CIA and by now you are learning how to choose better. Now you found one phone that sends no data and you know that it doesnt and second one that is advertised as privacy friendly alternative and watever. The second phone sends data but not to CIA and promises some data safety. Now, you actually think for a bit. Do you really need to be absolutist? In the end, you choose first phone simply because this is the one you are sure about, you dont want to be wrong again
But it turns out that its security patch is two years outdated and it has nothing convenient going on. Now you are stuck in a phone that is somewat useless, it doesnt deliver on promises and only good in limited circumstances. Now you think that you must research a bit more and be more smarter next time
Now find phone which is reasonably private, in that by default it doesnt send data to CIA but it could if you want. And second phone is the same privacy friendly brand from before. At first sight, it is kinda a difficult one, because first phone looks kinda better. But you choose second one because you read online about company and read their privacy policy and now conscious of how your data is used
You pick this phone and there is nothing really wrong with it. Security patch is recent, there is brand provided privacy alternarives to Google and watever. It is somewat convenient and useful. But it still bothers you that your data is still being sent somewhere. You think, all your photos can be potentially seen by some unknown server operator. But you dont actually have suspicion about the brand so you kinda stick with it
See the problem? Youve accepted by now that your data will be sent to a trustworthy party. But data is still sent. So, it is not private. Privacy friendly is only relative, as compared to Google. In the end, you gain little privacy and wat you gain sense of security. In order to be private and your data to be private, your data must be anonymous but there is no gurantee of dat in the privacy policy. So, wat the privacy brand sells is really feeling of safety and it only works so long you believe in it, so long you trust it
Thats why privacy is not just choosing better. No matter how good you choose, you wont get at that point that your privacy is guranteed. You must do huge effort to be sure that your privacy is respected, and you must know that it is respected. But if you only can trust and believe, you cannot be sure that you have privacy, you can only feel that you do so long you believe in the provider you are using
In short, you must use own two hands to build your own privacy, not some faith healer woodoo bull shit. Dont at me with your moronic "choosing" schtick, if you arent building your own AOSP, or watever the hell, having all cloud under your direct control, that you blocked all Google services and you are sure that no device can reach them, then Im sorry but wat you are speaking of is just morony pretending to be something reasonable