Not that I will convince you to use signal, but there are desktop versions as well, so technically not required to use a smart phone.
Have you tried discussing this with ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity? I’ve found it extremely helpful for getting started, and exploring different options.
You’re right, it would be very annoying to change up your gait all the time unless you’re a potential target. Like you, I try to avoid being tracked and surveillances as much as possible just by principle. But for something like this it would be very impractical.
Well, if you did it all the time they would consistently identify you.
Why is that?
Everyone should get their personal tip app that we can show the person at the counter. “Would you like to give me some tip for buying your goods?”
I’ll play the uniformed devils advocate here:
I’m torn about my personal opinion about copyrights and software licensing in general. I think the main problem is the huge power imbalance between people and corporations, not so much the fact a company analyzed a bunch of available data to solve programming problems.
They don’t copy the data and sell it verbatim to others which would be a legal issue and in my mind also a moral issue, as they don’t add any additional value.
Yeah, strange design choice since the other buttons in theUI are not pill shaped.
Aside from that things look very nice.