Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Rob Braxman Tech" channel.

Your phone being "off" but having the charged battery connected is not "off" and can still be remotely accessed by law enforcement. The only reason I care about what private companies know, is because many of those private companies share data to law enforcement. Law enforcement, and the government at large, can actually do something to you if you get on their ever widening bad side. Private companies in and of themselves, cannot. 20:56 Linux is not always going to be safe. It's very much on the road to privacy invasion too.
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You'll stand out even more, because your browser agent will id as running on Linux with the kernal version, potentially even the distro, amongst everything else and very few people have that set up. You hide from non-deterministic tracking by being as mainstream, average and the same as others as possible.
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"Evil" isn't real. Whether you think someone is "evil", or not, is a matter of perspective. Certainly we can agree that from the perspective of we outside big tech this isn't a great outcome for us. But you seem to be missing something in your sentiment. They aren't just "evil" waking up every morning asking themselves how they can be more "evil" today than yesterday. That's a propaganda fantasy, no one in real life thinks that way. Not even people who do really horrible stuff. These companies are motivated by profit. They see this as a path to profit. Without a profit motivator, these technologies wouldn't exist, nor would there be a path to the stars. But the profit motkvator also means we have the power to help shift their direction through the power of our collective wallets and participation.
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@DailyTuna Have you not seen what is happening in open source? They've all turned socialist. They've all drunk the coolaid. They're spying just as much. They censor even more than for profit. It's over for open source.
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Great video. I just want to point out that whilst Google and Meta use user login IDs as you said, deterministic tracking is NOT limited to login IDs. Deterministic tracking is any first party knowable piece of confirmed identifying information, such as an address, phone number, government issued ID number (SSN, TFN, Licence #, etc) or any other piece of confirmed personal identifying information. You also forgot Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, many commercial VPNs, ISP/RSPs and cell providers amongst Google and Meta for deterministic trackers. You don't need to run external code on third party sites if you control a connection source or source device and can reliably identify it and its user. That was the whole point of mobile phones in the first place long before the internet went mainstream. To place a portable tracker on every person so they could always be found, listened in on and watched remotely. It's also why batteries in mobile phones aren't user removable anymore, because the people they wanted to track or spy on the most the most kept taking their batteries out at the important points. Remember, even when the phone is "off" it's still trackable and can still have the mic and camera remotely activated. That's why in many F200 boards all cell phones are placed in a faraday box in another room completely during important meetings. 18:53 Why not Opera?
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