>>14857
Lemme answer with a question:
Would you rather bend over for the poojeet CEO of gulag, or a kind of de-google'd android? Which is less bad? No one is saying there's a good option, for THERE IS NO GOOD SMARTPHONE, NEVER HAS BEEN.
If you absolutely must use a smartphone, if you can't make happen offbrand Blackberry-/Nokia-clone or going all the way to landline-only (no-phone would be best, but pretty much impossible to be part of a civilized society without some sort of way to send and receive the inherently insecure phone call and now texting, too), you're going to have to get used to lowering your standards and accepting the slightly less poisonous snake oil.
Just like if you're too addicted to the Web to go back full-time to BBS, Usenet, IRC, and Gopher, you're just going to have to learn to keep putting up with the deeply crony-corporatized clown-world hell of the Web, even surviving remote islands found via Marginalia, Wiby, and Neocities are compromised one way or another. Deal with it or become a hunter-gatherer mountain hermit so deep innawoods you're at least 100 miles from the nearest human settlement. Hope your last Internet usage is learning how to forage for nuts and berries and mushrooms without killing yourself, and how to hunt and trap and fish while not getting trampled by moose or eaten by wolves and bears and cougars.
