02-28-2021, 08:18 PM
(02-28-2021, 05:10 PM)C0ffeeFrea Wrote: AT&T does not want the Pinephone on it's network and has been blacklisting them. I hope they don't cancel your account. AT&T collects your user data and resells it. (and more) It can't collect much off the Pinephone due to Linux's privacy. There has been much written about it lately here in the forum especially by the Cricket users.
I've been with AT&T and it predecessors since the early 1990s. (I started with a local carrier and a bag phone but after a few acquisitions they became AT&T.) They've never really been able to collect much data aside from phone calls and location since I've never made use of mobile internet or any kind of "apps". I've always used a simple phone, which is still my daily driver until 3G service is taken down early next year. The phone is powered off and battery taken out unless in use so there is not even 24/7 location tracking they can latch onto.
Even after transitioning to another phone when it becomes necessary, whether the Pinephone or a 4G flip phone (they're out there, assuming AT&T will permit them), I still do not plan to use the cell connection much if at all for internet access. I really have no interest in phone functionality other than being able to make and receive phone calls. So no matter what they're just not going to be able to collect much in the way of marketable information. I wonder if after being a customer for nearly 30 years they would cancel my account for failing to give them data that they can monetize.