Does anyone know who is actually doing all the pushing?

I actually started doing random things and going random places to feed noise into the algorithms. I subscribe to newsletters about things I don’t find remotely interesting. I comment on uncharacteristic social media. I participate in short term phone exchanges. I change clothing styles often. I type random content on my work computer and save exploit prompts in files with names like passwords.txt. I would not have done any of those things outside surveillance capitalism.

I am Canadian. I don’t use the rbc app, I use a different bank and use their website. I alao use the skip website when I order there, but I’ve never heard of the third one.

I’m a grapheneOS user and I don’t have any google services installed. I havecyetvto hit any major issues with any apps or websites I use. Lucky, maybe?

Maybe citizens should start buying location data on Kash Patel, Hegseth, Vance, Thiel, Ellison, etc. You know, so everyone knows where they are at all times in case they want to thank them forcall the good work they’re doing.

offer a better, fully fleshed out alternative

is a bit of straw man. Offering a rough list of alternatives for discussion would be sufficient response to the question.

you are allowed to say X is shitty on its own

while true, this ignores that your original statement was challenging this choice over other possibilities. So yes, you can just say it’s a shitty choice, but you (colloquially, at least) implied there exist better choices in your opinion. So it is reasonable to ask what those might be.

Kinda depends on the role. I mean, I am a GRC, privacy, and security specialist who is usually brought in to teach existing employees how to improve their security awareness, and I have been a consultant in the IT industry for over 25 years. So I usually come in not trusting the employer.

If your corporation is running windows 11, you can’t be trusted to keep things malware free. If you’re a corporation, you should also respect true capitalist behaviour, and if they can make a profit offshoring, what difference does it make. If, however, you provide robust, *nix based equipment, follow a disciplined SDLC, and are not a corporation, then I might a couple of highly disciplined, experienced systems analysts with a GRC and privacy focus who would love to learn more about you.

Although you do open with the fact you don’t trust your people, so, probably not.

qlango might meet your needs.

Journalists used to use the inverted pyramid for a reason. Direct marketers reversed that principle to create what evolved into clickbait. So clickbait, to me, automatically implies the opposite of journalism (advertising and/or propaganda) .

Think about what we did in Ireland in the 80s. It’s no different, and it only worked marginally. Although that cpuld be because opsec was pretty good among the provisional IRA active cells.

I am not dyslexic, but for some reason I keep reading SHIFTphone as SHTFphone (which for me stands for Shit Hits The Fan), and that works even better in my brain. Does anyone know this tech, this company, anything? They are unfamiliar to me.

My colleagues and I never stopped encoding everything important before committing it to a digital context. We have never trusted the powers that be not to grab for more power and control.

That’s one way to get rid of remote work.

Could you progressively poison your data?

To piggyback on this and apply chauvinistic reciprocity, why would you spit anything at some you find cute. They probably decided to leave with Cthulhu, who is confidently, unapologetically, Cthulhu.

Yeah. When it comes to privacy, overkill often turns out to be not quite enough.

There is software you can use that adds all the other dot patterns to essentially anonymize your printer.

Technically, you should keep your phone and run false, normie activities on it. Give it to someone else to use and move about while you’re actually operational so it remains actively pinging the world while you’re away from it. All while also using the real approach, but not within range of your phone, or any windows or apple hardware linked to you either.

Yeah. Any way to switch my Canadian S10 or S20 to Lineage or similar? I’d do it in a heartbeat.