My favorite form factor was my 7 plus. Do you have cloud and/or sync issues with anything due to not being on the latest OSs?

Dissuade you from what?

Taken by themselves, yes you are correct. Less targeted is a positive. I would rather just not have the ads, which is where I am at now. So I don’t understand why I would give that up, which is what the OP’s strategy would seem to require.

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That’s what I’m after. It didn’t even occur to me to have posts to outside content.

They’ve definitely surpassed my own soccer skills. Or futbol if you prefer.

And zero audience fatalities. Now that’s a win.

Zombie apocalypse.

(Shit explodes, mate. It’s nothing exciting, but it’s definitely messy.)

Well said. I am also definitely open to name suggestions that are in line with the healthy criticism approach.

Yes, there are issues. I speak from personal experience. That is why I would advise taking a look at Drinkmate instead. Not that they anre any kind of superior company morally, and I do not shill for them, but they can carbonate any beverage, whereas Sodastream definitely cannot, and I have run into issues ignoring that rule and trying to do it myself anyway. Now I use Drinkmate.

I agree, which is why this approach to me seems ultimately counterproductive on an individual level.

I’m not seeing the relevance of your comment

I’m not, but OP would if they started opening up their IP and fingerprints to anyone who wants them, in order to inundate those parties with garbage data. Admittedly, I might be missing some clever part of their plan.

but how tf did we get here

With capitalistic gusto! 🤮

It’s an interesting concept, but I’m not sure the payoff justifies the effort.

Even with AI-generated noise, you’re still being tracked through logins, device fingerprints, and other signals. And in the process, you would probably end up degrading your own experience; getting irrelevant ads, broken recommendations, or tripping security systems.

There’s also the environmental cost to consider. If enough people ran decoy traffic 24/7, the energy use could become significant. All for a strategy that platforms would likely adapt to pretty quickly.

I get the appeal, but I wonder if the practical downsides outweigh the potential privacy gains.

Dumb question, but, are you in the military? (I’m not, and don’t know how these things work, but I’d like to learn)

What brands are you buying?

Sounds great, because I am!