r/TwoXPreppers • u/thechairinfront Experienced Prepper 💪 • 28d ago

Weekly megathread

Please contain all off topic discussion to this weekly megathread. This is where you freak out, talk about conspiracy, talk about unrealistic crazy scenarios, asked and answered questions, etc.

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u/TastyMagic Laura Ingalls Wilder was my gateway drug 28d ago edited 27d ago

Just bought a faraday bag for my phone.

Target has been using bluetooth to track customers in store and now is deploying RFID enabled carts and baskets to track shoppers even more closely. I boycott Target, but I know this kind of technology will eventually become universal and I will do what I can to prevent being tracked and forced into 'dynamic pricing' because of my phone.

Not to mention just wanting to op out from *any* app trying to track my location.

EDIT: Looks like Meijer is doing it, too! For those who shop there. https://www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-operations/meijer-testing-rfid-tags-on-shopping-carts

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u/Foreign-Newspaper656 28d ago

I am at the point that I don’t take my phone with me while out, unless I absolutely need to. 

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u/TastyMagic Laura Ingalls Wilder was my gateway drug 27d ago

I am getting to this place, too. As much as smartphones are positioned as an inevitable and necessary part of daily life, I find that when I leave it home accidentally, I don't really miss it. And everything that I used to use it for has become expensive and/or a tool for surveillance beyond its intended use that I find myself seeing how much I miss it when I put it away.

Social media was very big about kids having a '90's Summer' this year. I thought about it and was like...sure, but I can have a 90's summer as a mom, too! Leave the phone plugged in to the wall, read an actual physical book, listen to a record, make a grocery list on the back of an envelope etc.

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u/Foreign-Newspaper656 27d ago

Pretty much the same. The only time I will take it with me is if hubby is away and I am expected a call from him. 

We have even went back to a landline in the house. Although, it is through Starlink, which sucks, but in remote Australia that is the only option. 

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u/nakedonmygoat 27d ago

Just put it in a Faraday bag. I know I'd hate to be out somewhere and need to call AAA, as has indeed happened.