Internet Technology Has Become A Living Nightmare

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computer.user
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A rejoint: 02/04/2025

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.

Gottfried
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A rejoint: 02/22/2022

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.

andyprough
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A rejoint: 02/12/2015

>"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?

computer.user
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A rejoint: 02/04/2025

andyprough, I don't mind.

Legimet
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A rejoint: 12/10/2013

I can't disagree. Still, I'd rather use web pages than smartphone apps. Every website tries to push its own app nowadays.

computer.user
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A rejoint: 02/04/2025

I just got an email about another data breach. Unbelievable.

https://www.comcastbreachsettlement.com/