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Best cell phone and provider to receive unbiased feedback
Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:12 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:12 pm
Iam starting to really dislike Apples constant undates on their IOS software that seems to push the results that pay them the most or fit their agenda. I might be wrong but I’d like to know what y’all know. Iam your grandpa not your peer so be kind and make it simple. What phone should I buy with what provider to have my searches answered w/o political or commercial bias?
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Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:50 pm to Royalfishing
It’s has been exactly 19 years(Google IPO) since you could search the web in an information-first biased manner. Ever since then, search has been purposefully designed to give you ads and poor results so that you have to stay on the search site longer to find anything remotely relevant. This is not a secret.
You won’t find a better platform than Apple for non-bias and privacy unless you go full open source and with a non-certified phone it will be very difficult to watch media and what not.
Things may be getting better though. You can try Kagi(paid) or Brave to search.
You won’t find a better platform than Apple for non-bias and privacy unless you go full open source and with a non-certified phone it will be very difficult to watch media and what not.
Things may be getting better though. You can try Kagi(paid) or Brave to search.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 5:54 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:58 pm to Royalfishing
It's not about Apple. Just set your default search engine to DuckDuckGo. Instructions are here. It's pretty simple to do.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:05 pm to LemmyLives
DDG may help a little with privacy but it uses Bing and certainly won’t help with finding things.
Posted on 3/3/26 at 9:04 am to Royalfishing
no apple fanboy here but is it just the timing of the updates that bothers you? Because if so, those are for security patches the vast majority of the time. Those are good things.
Posted on 3/3/26 at 11:44 am to Dallaswho
It does help with finding things, but I also don't search with strings like "best TV" or "Gavin Newsome achievements."
Posted on 3/3/26 at 2:47 pm to Royalfishing
Try, Qwant.
Qwant
It's an EU based search engine. You can read about it, Wiki to Qwant if you want.
Do I use it? No, but I'm not really that concerned about google tracking.
Qwant
It's an EU based search engine. You can read about it, Wiki to Qwant if you want.
Do I use it? No, but I'm not really that concerned about google tracking.
Posted on 3/9/26 at 4:28 pm to LemmyLives
That has been my default browser but it doesn’t stop the Apple software updates and bug fixes that happen and reorganize everything. And Duckis getting annoying with their AI click bait.
Posted on 3/9/26 at 4:31 pm to Ricardo
My issue is not with the browser. It is with the Apple Operating System. Iam told that good Androids don’t have this issue with so many “updates” and “Bug fixes”.
Posted on 3/9/26 at 5:36 pm to Royalfishing
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Iam told that good Androids don’t have this issue with so many “updates” and “Bug fixes”.
Apple has more updates and fixes because it is a fairly closed ecosystem that allows them to identify and fixes a far higher percentage of issues. Android has a FAR more fragmented system running on a huge number of devices and is impossible for them to stay on top of all of this.
Note, iPhones are the most secure phones OUT OF THE BOX. If you know what you are doing you can make Android phones as or even more secure than an iPhone but you wouldn't be asking these questions if you were going to do that.
Unless you are using Apple News as your source of info (avoiding the use of a browser) or using Safari, then Apple is not impacting any bias you see.
Any change you make is likely simply giving you peace of mind and you almost certainly will have a less secure phone. IMO it is very simple to get news with the bias I want. There is no such thing as completely unbiased news, people gravitate to the bias they want, if they didn't news would read and sound like old AP wire reports. Obviously, you are free to do what you want, but for you leaving the Apple ecosystem will likely leave your phone more vulnerable and have no impact on the bias you are seeing.
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