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Some advice against phishers and stupid phone ads
Nothing is free in the tech world
Looking at your phone, you might peruse something like Twitter, or Facebok. You didn’t pay for those apps unless you have the nice blue checkmark, so they’re “free!”
Or download a Solitaire app or any other game from the App Store/ Google Play Store and you’ll freely enjoy some nice game time.
But the people that make those apps get paid somehow don’t they? Meta has been losing money for a while now but they’re still pulling in billions right?
Well if you didn’t pay for something online, then YOU are the product, as you may have heard.
- Facebook and Google track you and sell ads worth billions
- All those free apps from the app store come riddled with ads
If you don’t want to be tracked; you can “ask not to track” on iOS, or go with alternative browsers (i.e. Brave/Safari instead of Chrome) or alternative search engines (DuckDuckGo or Bing haha). For Facebook I think you can just delete it? Hahaha!
The other sorts of free apps let you do one of two things: pay for a version of the app that doesn’t have ads, or continue to sit through ads until your eyes glaze over…
