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Literal Hostage Situation (europe.pub)
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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If they won't convert to signal then oh well.

People got along fine before what's app. Just don't use it.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just don’t use it.

making me repeat myself... grumble...

If I want to keep in contact with my family (and I do), I have no choice but to use it.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You have a choice. You don't have to use it. People managed for thousands of years, you can too.

Have some principles. If they can't or won't change, don't make it your problem.

They will come around if and when you take it seriously. Or they won't, and then well, fuck em.

I have family around the world. Some said they can't change, that's on them. Others did and that's fine. But nobody is going to if you cave and enable them to just keep doing it.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm sorry that your relationship with your family is so unimportant to you that you think it's better to cut them off entirely from your life than to use something you dislike.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Its fine. In sorry you are so unimportant to your family that they don't care about anything but themselves.

In the end though, there are lots of ways to communicate, and making a stand for something causes change.

Being unable to change from a data harvesting societal ill is troubling.