I’m aware of GrapheneOS, but I don’t know how their tracking works, so I also don’t know if GrapheneOS can offer enough protection.

I hope there’s some technological way we can use to foil these attempts to violate citizens’ privacy en masse.

It was not just MS. There were those who followed that lead and announced that it was an industry thing.

Anyone else remember a few years ago when companies got rid of all their QA people because something something functional testing? Yeah.

The uncontrolled growth in abstractions is also very real and very damaging, and now that companies are addicted to the pace of feature delivery this whole slipshod situation has made normal they can’t give it up.