I understand, accept and respect your point of view, but I don't share it.
I want devices I bought to solely work in my interest. So, the system must not send data on its own anywhere unless I was notified and I agree. Please note, this issue is ideally orthogonal to software freedom, even though in practice they correlate positively.
Not everybody agrees with me on this and it's fine. However, there could be a more diverse market, I think. I could imagine two versions existing: one "normal" and one privacy-respecting version. I wouldn't even mind if the latter would be more expensive.
I've given up on companies and developers respecting my privacy. Not because they're all evil, but because it doesn't scale. There's an unlimited number of companies that you would have to deal with.
Use a firewall that blocks or MITMs all outbound network requests by default. It's the only way to know what every app is calling home to and reporting about.
Think about it, which scales better? Raise your point of view with the developer of every app you want to use, or putting blanket protections in place at the gateway level one time and performing minor whitelisting tweaks (that you can do yourself!) over time?
I just fear for all those who don't know any better.
When a site is blocked, I can enter a username and password to override the block, or I can choose to whitelist that traffic. Different devices have different policies applied to them re what to block.
I want devices I bought to solely work in my interest. So, the system must not send data on its own anywhere unless I was notified and I agree. Please note, this issue is ideally orthogonal to software freedom, even though in practice they correlate positively.
Not everybody agrees with me on this and it's fine. However, there could be a more diverse market, I think. I could imagine two versions existing: one "normal" and one privacy-respecting version. I wouldn't even mind if the latter would be more expensive.