Ad-tech company Glance promises users will “consume what is shown to them.”
Horrific:
Glance’s app is a full-screen takeover of the lock screen. It looks a lot like a generic swipe-heavy social network, like TikTok or Snapchat Discover, but it only shows content from Glance. Imagine if every time you turned on your phone, you were first presented with an auto-playing video from a popular off-brand TikToker, and you get the idea. The company’s website promises “unparalleled reach” and “authentic engagement” from its captive audience. Naveen Tewari, founder and CEO of InMobi, gave a rather dystopian description of his company’s strategy to Forbes India, saying, “Consumers will move from seeking content to consuming what is shown to them.”
I’ve been using Meizu for years although I consider other options for my next since their prices have rosen and they almost entirely removed the 3.5mm jack (deal breaker for me but maybe you’re fine with it)
Xiaomi isn’t very ethical. Fairphone will do it better with their fair trade. If you don’t have the money, you can change your OS or get a second hand smartphone and help the environment and combat the slavery work. At least with smartphone we can do it.
All electronic devices (all chips in computers, cars, smartphones and more stuff every time) are build with resources extracted from “not ethical” places which means slavery, mafias, interests like this war that Putin is doing (wars are about resources). They extract those resources at very cheap cost, the factory is normally also on china because it’s cheaper the transport than paying a decent salary.
The process to make chips also requires to consume a lot of resources to build them. (like a lot and a lot of water to clean them perfectly)
Those devices normally comes with spyware often used to spy you. And we all know what they do with the data they collect, they know how to manipulate us and prevent any riot or create it. They own the media, they own your data and they have all the tools to wash people brains with nationalism and creating conflicts to keep people distracted, the same as giving us the perfect jobs to waste our time so we don’t have that time to protest for our rights or for those bad stuff they are doing.
That’s my point of view, you want a more deep detail.
Wait, I’m still confused, sorry. What you describe seems to apply to pretty much any electronics manufacturer, not just Xiaomi. I was specifically asking about them, do they stand out in some fashion?
Sorry, I got confused too, what you are asking can be found if you go to a search engine and type “xiaomi spyware”. Xiaomi is just a Chinese company, don’t expect them to care about privacy, they don’t see that as a right of their users, and they do what Chinese government wants. Same with any USA product, by law they are enforced to do and not talk about it.
This is mostly in Europe as it gets or got subventions from Europe. Those smartphones are expensive for the specs they have but that’s because they are paying fairly the resources and manufacturing.
Alright which one of you brainiacs is gonna help me get a Chinese phone
https://lemmy.ml/post/128747?scrollToComments=true
Enjoy.
I’ve been using Meizu for years although I consider other options for my next since their prices have rosen and they almost entirely removed the 3.5mm jack (deal breaker for me but maybe you’re fine with it)
aliexpress comrade.
What Chinese phone do you recommend? I’m thinking Huawei, wdyt?
Look up ‘rugged smartphone’ on aliexpress.
I’ve used Xiaomi’s for years, highly recommend.
Thank you! Are there any limitations to what apps can’t be installed?
The problem isn’t installing apps. It’s that if you need apps that rely on Google services they might not work properly or even at all.
IIRC some of Xiaomi phones aren’t supported by US carriers (I’m not sure about other “global community” countries) though.
Anything works, its android, and you can install f-droid of course.
Xiaomi isn’t very ethical. Fairphone will do it better with their fair trade. If you don’t have the money, you can change your OS or get a second hand smartphone and help the environment and combat the slavery work. At least with smartphone we can do it.
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by “not very ethical”? Predatory corporate practices?
That’s my point of view, you want a more deep detail.
Wait, I’m still confused, sorry. What you describe seems to apply to pretty much any electronics manufacturer, not just Xiaomi. I was specifically asking about them, do they stand out in some fashion?
Sorry, I got confused too, what you are asking can be found if you go to a search engine and type “xiaomi spyware”. Xiaomi is just a Chinese company, don’t expect them to care about privacy, they don’t see that as a right of their users, and they do what Chinese government wants. Same with any USA product, by law they are enforced to do and not talk about it.
What smartphone brand would you recommend?
I already said Fairphone.
For example, with a ethical OS would be https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-4-fr/
This is mostly in Europe as it gets or got subventions from Europe. Those smartphones are expensive for the specs they have but that’s because they are paying fairly the resources and manufacturing.
If you want to know more about the smartphone: https://www.fairphone.com/
The OS is open source, a project to help people to get privacy easily. They even have Tor network built in. https://e.foundation/e-os/ https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/releases/-/releases