NextDNS analytics
Wow! That's much more that I would have thought. Can't wait to liberate my dad's phone over the holidays, he's on board with me getting GrapheneOS on it. Will have to see what I can do to their home network as well though since mom's stuck on a carrier-locked phone.
I'm too scared to start calculating it myself, but I sometimes wonder how much electricity, drive space, and bandwidth we'd save if we cut all this nonsense analytics and forced ads
Don't get me started on all this Ai agents who are crawling the web and scrapping everything
You are everywhere!
You get big electricity bill. They get free data to sell.
What's the downside for them?
You can try this out by metering your usage with Rethink. It measures how much each app uses on and off of wifi in addition to its myriad other functions.
I was able to switch from unlimited data to a 3GB/month data plan when I switched to Graphene OS.
I wonder how much electricity and bandwith is used by all that spyware...
I wonder how much is just due to the default phone launcher and keyboard.
Sure it's not that he no longer is able to use his phone? (Just kidding)
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