I’d say the silliness seen here goes hand-in-hand with curiosity and intelligence, which makes them clever and effective hunters. This type of derpiness also earns them a rent free spot in monkey houses. So, dumb as it may seem, this is actually a very fit behavior.
It’s wise to question motives but in this case I get the feeling they’re the good guys.
I’m definitely not an expert here and it sounds like you probably know more about this than I do. In my experience, android phones I’ve bought come with google play already installed and cell carrier bloatware. When you turn on the phone for the first time, one of the first steps is setting up your Google account.
If your point is that you can get around all this with stock android and you don’t specifically need grapheneOS, you’re probably right.
I think the point was that its an issue on phones with a standard android setup.
I think the problem is that once your phone knows its location from GPS, google and apps can access this data. The data is then shared with advertisers and also, you know, government agencies.
Unfortunately, even just the names of nearby WiFi networks and Bluetooth connections can be used to determine location. If apps and google services have access to this info, they still have location data on you, even with your cell and GPS radios disabled.
Supposedly GOS doesn’t allow google or apps to access the location data unless you allow it, which is nice.
He got famous in 2003 with “get rich or die trying.”
According to the calculator on the us bureau of labor statics website, something that would have cost 50 cents in 2003 would cost 89 cents today.
50 cents has lost 44% of its value since 2003.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=.5&year1=200301&year2=202508
It kinda looks like they went back for a second bite.
Genuinely don’t understand how this guy isn’t as bad, if not far worse than whoever shot Charlie Kirk.
I’d like to add that librewolf is a great privacy focused browser based on Firefox.