I wanted something that’s more difficult to consume media on. Something that is less conductive to feeding some guy’s advertising empire. The cloud apps are interesting to me not because of YouTube, but because of maps and public transport schedules. That way, it’d be closer to my main-main phone, rather than falling back to the smartphone for some apps.
Whatsapp is somewhat optional for me as my friends don’t use it, but I know it’s important to other people. It would be important to me if I went outside the EU, though.
There’s also something about escaping Android.
gramie@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
I know someone who works in a university group related to privacy issues. He refuses to have a smartphone because of the ease which which almost anyone can track you and your activities. I think he has an old flip phone.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yes, that’s kind of what I was getting at - having this cloud browser thing would be significantly worse for privacy than even a smart phone.