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submitted 1 week ago by Gonzako@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

So I am recently looking up the options to buy a new EV and, clearly, I've been discussing it with my family and close friends.

There was one constant tho, anytime we ended up discussing it, THEIR phones would light up with a plethora of Car adverts.

This has made my mother snap, she has told me she wants to buy the same phone as mine and I've finally been able to discuss with her other ways these devices are made to work for the manufacturer, not their buyers.

So far so good! I personally can't wait to setup the GrapheneOS phone for her.

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[-] ell1e@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The only relatively safe way to avoid it is to not use any app unless it's from f-droid or similar places, to use a degoogled phone, to use an adblocker for all websites, to use an end-to-end messenger for private conversations and not social media, to use federated non-profit social media if you ever use any at all, to use a paid email provider that doesn't make money of your data as primary income, and to use an actually private web search (not Bing, not Google).

It's a shame that it requires so much knowledge and effort for a bare minimum of privacy.

this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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