It boils down to consent. You should always always get consent before taking an action that includes somebody else. Just because you can see me is not consent to record me. If you don’t have consent, don’t do it. It’s as simple as that.
Look into Pixelfed.
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So you want me to visit one of the greatest surveillance capitalist and privacy abusers video website to get tips on how to help people understand why privacy is important? Yah, about that. No.
If you have a Nextcloud instance, then https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/phonetrack might work.
It’s developers working on their time to build an app they want. You don’t have the right to demand they do things your way.
You can’t stop location tracking on cellular devices. If it’s connected to a cell tower, you’re being tracked and profiled.
Mastodon and friends are built as open conduits with very little in the way of safety or permissions. Spam should be expected.
It’s not a Fediverse vulnerability. It’s a Mastodon vulnerability. Don’t want spam? Use a better fediverse technology.
Jabber (XMPP) or Matrix/Element.
Cell phone tracking is common place. If you carry one, you’re being tracked, profiled and having your data correlated with others. The question is whether you support living in a surveillance society. If you do, grab a cell phone and be happy. If not, get rid of it and use alternative communication methods. It’s a simple choice. In my experience, most people choose convenience over privacy.
That bad?
Last time I used Windows on my own was back in the XP days. I saw some of the early Vista and it was even worse. I can’t imagine what the recent versions are like.
Wallabag might work.
Have you considered hosting your own instance instead? Seems like that would solve the issue.
You’re not alone, but even people who claim to want privacy are typically unwilling to stop using the very things that violate their privacy. I suspect that until that changes on a mass scale, the expectation that you should give up your data will remain.
Conversations, Cheogram, Dino are the ones I’ve used.
The act of collecting the location data should be illegal. Selling it should never have been possible.
That’s lip service to privacy with spyware in reality.
There is no such thing as a private cellular device. It does not matter if it’s a smartphone, dumb phone, or simple internet access device.
Cellular devices are location tracked and their owners profiled. All devices have proprietary cellular modems that communicate over the network and have full access to your system. Nothing you do on device will stop that.
The only exception I’ve heard of is from Purism. The Librem 5 claims to separate the base system from the cellular modem, but that still won’t stop the location tracking.
Point blank, you can’t carry a connected cellular device, and have privacy. They are mutually exclusive goals.
Free speech is a basic human right. No politics necessary.
To use an Alphabet product is to support Alphabet regardless of how you access it. If you want to de-google, then stop using their products 100%.