Internet Technology Has Become A Living Nightmare
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Everybody expects everyone else to have a smartphone. I go to the doctor, the receptionist is sitting there doing nothing, yet she wants me to check myself in with a smartphone. Landline phone service no longer exists in my area despite the electricity going out literally multiple times every winter. I'm stuck with buggy VOIP that won't disconnect the phone line after I hang up.
Every internet-based company has a long privacy policy about how they'll use or sell customer data. There's always some new tracking technology; you block cookies, but now some websites use supercookies or pixels. On some websites, you can't read a block of text without enabling javascript or disabling your vpn. Infinite Cloudflare loops, authentic online content replaced with "influencer" posts/videos: the Internet is not really the place to be anymore.
Public services keep choosing to integrate Google services or introduce new web technology yet keep getting hacked. Every other organization, even the public library, is using random third-party services that want private info. I was notified that my health insurance company was hacked, then I couldn't access the class action settlement money without giving some unknown third-party service my personal information.
And so many people complaining about the power mainstream social media has, yet nearly everyone is on it. Apparently governments would rather keep fining Facebook than tell their citizens to stop using it.
I sometimes fantasize about moving to a developing country. I wouldn't mind going back to paying in cash, going to businesses in person, standing in line to speak to an employee instead of having to unblock Google services to submit an online application, if I can get the application to even load on Abrowser. I once filled out a job application that was trying to load Google Maps. Some modern web development just makes no sense.
if you live in Amerika, US,
Arthur Firstenberg, from US, in his newsletters on
https://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/
before he died
(I don´t know if the website is still maintained after his death),
described the health danger, dangers for the planet and the whole of mankind through microwaves
(military developed this technology to kill people, its not for personal use)
and said:
first give up your mobile phone/cell phone
then try to sort out your life without a mobile phone.
Also all other microwave devices threaten our privacy through powers who want to control our lives totally...
The more people who are doing that the better, Firstenberg and many others said.
I gave up my mobile phone because of "loving your neighbour"
for daily more and more people are getting ill and can´t live anymore in towns...
they are seeking refuge in forests and lonely places where the microwaves are less,
and live a life in poorest conditions.
I removed every microwave devices from my flat,
no microwave oven, no telephone without cable, no WIFI,...
and checking every electric equipment in my flat,
with a device (E-Smog-Spion, I bought in Germany) which can check the microwaves and even the lightbulbs if they have bad "flickering",
because those devices are misused to control our lives and make us slaves.
In US there are surely such devices,
I even watched a video from US people, who checked their homes with such devices.
I am paying in cash,
I am having a landline-phone, and even people from US have that
I didn´t get several jobs, because I refused to have a mobile phone.
I went in person to every company, to find a job.
God helped me to find a job without a mobile phone,
there they gave me a mobile phone which I put in a microwave wallet, (you can buy safety stuff) to safe myself and others from microwaves.
Even people who are obliged by their companies to use a mobile phone
find ways to connect their mobile phones to a laptop and phone through IP e.g.
everyone has to start by himself!
and find ways (others will help) to live a life without being controlled every second,
without being watched by Amazon, Google, Facebook....
a life worthy of living.
>"Everybody expects everyone else to have a smartphone. I go to the doctor, the receptionist is sitting there doing nothing, yet she wants me to check myself in with a smartphone. Landline phone service no longer exists in my area despite the electricity going out literally multiple times every winter. I'm stuck with buggy VOIP that won't disconnect the phone line after I hang up.
Every internet-based company has a long privacy policy about how they'll use or sell customer data. There's always some new tracking technology; you block cookies, but now some websites use supercookies or pixels. On some websites, you can't read a block of text without enabling javascript or disabling your vpn. Infinite Cloudflare loops, authentic online content replaced with "influencer" posts/videos: the Internet is not really the place to be anymore.
Public services keep choosing to integrate Google services or introduce new web technology yet keep getting hacked. Every other organization, even the public library, is using random third-party services that want private info. I was notified that my health insurance company was hacked, then I couldn't access the class action settlement money without giving some unknown third-party service my personal information.
And so many people complaining about the power mainstream social media has, yet nearly everyone is on it. Apparently governments would rather keep fining Facebook than tell their citizens to stop using it.
I sometimes fantasize about moving to a developing country. I wouldn't mind going back to paying in cash, going to businesses in person, standing in line to speak to an employee instead of having to unblock Google services to submit an online application, if I can get the application to even load on Abrowser. I once filled out a job application that was trying to load Google Maps. Some modern web development just makes no sense."
I love everything about this, you've written about the disaster that the internet has turned into in such a clear and well detailed manner. Do you mind if I quote this on another forum?
andyprough, I don't mind.
It is bs you have to give more third party services personal information to get the settlement money.
That is just "crap level" evil.
This is why surveillance capitalism must die
I can't disagree. Still, I'd rather use web pages than smartphone apps. Every website tries to push its own app nowadays.
I just got an email about another data breach. Unbelievable.
Use google, expect data breaches.
Not unbelievable.
Its like kicking yourself in your junk and not expecting to feel intense pain.
I went to the doctor without a smartphone, but yes, they did expect me to have one. They handed me an Apple iBad to do my check-in. Later, they expected me to scan a QR code, but I said I had no phone, and they spent a few minutes printing off the thing they wanted me to sign/acknowledge.
Indeed, not being able to read pages at all, because of JavaScript, is a problem. I must admit, I get weak, and I enable the JS in frustration. I should email those sites more often about the issue.
I still pay in cash, although some places make it less convenient. For job applications, I will enable the JS, though I'd rather not. Too bad paper job applications are no longer a thing. I often take inspiration from the Amish when trying to find ways to live in America without modern "conveniences" of Big Tech. Yes, I still go to the human teller at the bank, who says "get the app" every time I talk to them...
> Indeed, not being able to read pages at all, because of JavaScript, is a problem.
Sometimes using Read Mode or changing the page style to No Style shows the text. Sometimes loading the page in Dillo works too.
My local grocery store has savings down every aisle that I can't use because I won't download their app.
I try not to carry my phone anyway but now a days a smart phone to most people is like a wallet for men or a purse for women, you just go around without it. Paying via the smart phone replaces cash for a lot of people. I bought hearing aids and some new thermostats for the house, both requiring apps to be 'full featured' but those apps aren't on F-droid. I have a cheap smart phone I bought overseas and don't keep charged up and running but I can charge it up to adjust my hearing aids and then put it away. :)
Yes. Things have changed. A smartphone (and downloading a program whenever someone asks) is 'essential' these days. So far, I've done the best I can in avoiding a smartphone, as I have calls and SMS on my laptop, and our thermostat works fine from its in-built touch screen, but I've never used hearing aids, so I don't know how bad the situation is.
I know Bradley Kuhn is diabetic and has gone through the effort of using free software continuous glucose monitoring software, despite the doctors insisting that he use (Non)FreeStyle (No)Libre. (You can find more information about this journey on his Mastodon.)
I hope you can find your way without having to install so many apps. I know it's hard.
new thermostats for the house, both requiring apps to be 'full featured' but those apps aren't on F-droid
I use home assistant to control the heating in my home. I bought the "home assistant green" device with a zigbee adaptor, I have temperature sensors in 3 places inside and one outside, and a controller on each electrical heater. I use Versatile Thermostat with "scheduler card" to automatically adjust the heating. I also installed a sensor that detects when I open a window so that it automatically switches heating off.
At first, I felt overwhelmed by the unusual terminology (and I am still not that familiar with it) but once you have found what to you, it works easily and there is nothing to do anymore. There is an app on F-Droid but it can be accessed on the web interface as well, no need for an app.
I try not to carry my phone anyway but now a days a smart phone to most people is like a wallet for men or a purse for women, you just go around without it.
It is worse than that, I see a large number of people constantly looking at their phone, no matter what they are doing. I carry a phone with me but I rarely use it.
Paying via the smart phone replaces cash for a lot of people
Where I live, bank card is the dominant way to pay, and cash is still common in small shops.

