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What do you NOT do, that you would do without privacy violation? [discussion] (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The promise of technology was to expand our horizons. In many ways, it kinda did. We got a lot of awesome shit. But we also got {waves hands vaguely at everything} this dystopia.

I love tech! But I hate techno-surveilance. There are things I don't do b/c of it. Or things I do less now.

For example. I wanted to volunteer on a trail maintaining crew. But they're all TF over FB and Tiktok. They put everyone's photos on there. Vids of ppl working. They coordinate on FB groups.

I give up conveniences like google maps. Esp when those conveniences come with baked in surveilance. My friends mock my paper map. But w/e.

I take less road trips than I want. I hate having all my travel logged by ALPR. Even driving an old ass car without onboard GPS.

Are there things you would do, but you don't, b/c of techno-dystopia? Or you do them less?

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[–] Kynsey@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you get Organic Maps you can use GPS navigation. It works entirely offline so you can turn your phones cellular off and just use GPS which is passive and doesn't send out signals. Best practice would be Graphene OS as the base and not having google services installed at all too.

[–] Rinzler@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CoMaps too!

[–] Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CoMaps is to Organic Maps what LibreOffice is to OpenOffice: a copy aiming to make things better

[–] waldfee@feddit.org 3 points 14 hours ago

~~aiming to~~

ftfy

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

wait this really works? i never got gps working on my degoogled android(lineageos) phone(s).

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago

Never got apps to work cause GPS us just a signal.

[–] Kynsey@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Yes. GPS is a free to use and seperate thing run by the US Military. Any phone can use it that has the hardware for it. I've never used lineage os tho so can't speak for that specifically. But it has nothing to do with google. Google does have its own location services but those use wifi and other means to make it more accurate. They're entirely optional.