NextDNS analytics
my mom would call the fire department if I tried to change the default wallpaper of her 2010 iphone
My pihole reports similar after blocking millions of sites
He just used his phone less in general?
Just as likely that red sliver at the end was the traffic created by his intentional usage of the phone all-along. Telemetry and ads are just that gross, but what do I know?
I’m too scared to start calculating it myself, but I sometimes wonder how much electricity, drive space, and bandwidth we’d save if we cut all this nonsense analytics and forced ads
Don’t get me started on all this Ai agents who are crawling the web and scrapping everything
You are everywhere!
Yes I’m. 😁
You get big electricity bill. They get free data to sell.
What’s the downside for them?
You can try this out by metering your usage with Rethink. It measures how much each app uses on and off of wifi in addition to its myriad other functions.
Wow! That’s much more that I would have thought. Can’t wait to liberate my dad’s phone over the holidays, he’s on board with me getting GrapheneOS on it. Will have to see what I can do to their home network as well though since mom’s stuck on a carrier-locked phone.
My windows work laptop claims most of the blocked requests in pihole in this Linux household
I was able to switch from unlimited data to a 3GB/month data plan when I switched to Graphene OS.
same! only used half a gig last month its mind boggling. cost 3 bucks for data and 5 bucks for my number thru jmp
Nice! I was thinking about jmp before but read about issues with 2fa texts. My credit card still relies on 2fa texts so I am not sure if jmp would work for me.
Do you have any issues with texts from short numbers (5digit) and 2fa texts in general?
I wonder how much electricity and bandwith is used by all that spyware…
Since switching my FP6 to /e/OS i get at least double the battery life (not heavily using it, just messaging, listening to podcasts, outertune and some browsing). Especially when the screen is off, there is almost no battery usage.
Crazy…also, you made me remember how i had this cheap ass phone who battery life was like 2 days with screen off, i removed the google stuff and it became a full week (and i was hosting a discord bot on that guy btw)
Yeah i still remember my Redmi Notes fondly. Great battery life, good custom rom support, everything i needed from a smartphone. Very unfortunate, that xiaomi restricts custom ROMs as much as they do…
Sure it’s not that he no longer is able to use his phone? (Just kidding)
I wonder how much is just due to the default phone launcher and keyboard.
