• Psythik@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    To be fair, if you own a smartphone, you already carry one of these devices with you everywhere you go.

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      6 months ago

      Not if you disable all voice commands and use something like GrapheneOS (maybe even with stock android and ios when disabling all voice commands but I wouldn’t count on it)

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          6 months ago

          True, but the comment I’ve replied to talked about smartphones in general. My point was that it is possible to avoid being stalked.

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          6 months ago

          thats not grapheneos’ fault tho. blame the oems

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      6 months ago

      are you saying i secretly have amazon alexa installed on my grapheneos phone ? oh my!

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        6 months ago

        OK Google/Siri is built into every smartphone, genius. They have the same spying features as Alexa.