Mate just pointed out that Smiles now requires telephone verification...
Discussion
Wtf is smiles
https://www.smilesbitcoin.com/
Not adding a ref link to the app. I was on the fence about them but really not sure now
They track your location and give you 25 sats per day 👀
Sounds about right
Might as well just put your eyeballs in the orb
Tbf they don't track you, Google does and they'll do that regardless of if you give them permission....but now smiles are asking for your number it's not even a simple safeish introduction to stacking a few sats now for newbies
I came down to the "why would I willingly subject myself to being tracked?" Regardless of my opinion of the organization tracking me, there would always be that threat of jurisdictional capture of that information, or many other forms of capture.
I'm very suspect of anyone wanting me to link my payment cards for rewards. Lolli has been pushing hard on this. Lolli does not need to know my shopping history any more than they already do through their web extension tracker.
If someone is handing you sats, be careful what you are handing them back in return.
Yeah, thing is they're not tracking you - or they weren't, initially, that was done by Google, but now they want your personal info - and, while I think about it, they introduced some opt in Pokémon Go type game so they've been seeking location data as well
Right, they were just using the data that Google was already taking. But now on GrapheneOS, I'm not giving Google that information anymore, or at least trying not to. I even still play Pokemon Go a bit, but I've turned off the ActiveSync stuff that tracks me when I am not actively playing the game.
I'm going to have to bite the bullet and fully degoogle myself eventually. The only concern I have with graphene is it's recommended phone is pixel, made by the very people I want to escape. What kind of backdoors are there in the chips? That concerns me. I know there's probably other options out there, and I need to explore.
The main problem is apathy - I didn't switch to Nostr fully till I got nuked on the dead bird app. Without an over riding emotional response change comes slowly.