{"id":18093,"date":"2025-03-13T18:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/how-to-end-your-phone-addiction-once-and-for-all-letter\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:37:27","slug":"how-to-end-your-phone-addiction-once-and-for-all-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/how-to-end-your-phone-addiction-once-and-for-all-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to end your phone addiction once and for all | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Sorensen <\/strong>says we should be hanging up on surveillance capitalism<\/p>\n

The Guardian has published quite a lot of articles<\/a> recently expressing some concern over the use of smartphones. Emma\u00a0Beddington\u2019s piece (My phone knows what I want before I do. That should be worrying \u2013 but it\u2019s oddly comforting, 10 March<\/a>) is perhaps the most alarming to date, mitigated to only\u00a0some degree by her\u00a0self-awareness. But\u00a0help\u00a0is\u00a0at\u00a0hand.<\/p>\n

There is a simple way in which we can set ourselves free. Remove the battery if possible, then take your biggest hammer and set to work on the rest. The more cost-effective solution is not to buy one in the first place. I never have and it\u2019s still rarely a problem, though surveillance capitalism tries hard to make it one. Oldish people like myself are less likely to own smartphones, increasingly likely to be marginalised as a result, lucky to remember life without their constant intrusion.<\/p>\n

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\nSarah Sorensen says we should be hanging up on surveillance capitalism
\nThe Guardian has published quite a lot of articles recently expressing some concern over the use of smartphones. Emma\u00a0Beddington\u2019s piece (My phone knows what I want before I do. That should be worrying \u2013 but it\u2019s oddly comforting, 10 March) is perhaps the most alarming to date, mitigated to only\u00a0some degree by her\u00a0self-awareness. But\u00a0help\u00a0is\u00a0at\u00a0hand.
\nThere is a simple way in which we can set ourselves free. Remove the battery if possible, then take your biggest hammer and set to work on the rest. The more cost-effective solution is not to buy one in the first place. I never have and it\u2019s still rarely a problem, though surveillance capitalism tries hard to make it one. Oldish people like myself are less likely to own smartphones, increasingly likely to be marginalised as a result, lucky to remember life without their constant intrusion. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Sorensen says we should be hanging up on surveillance capitalism The Guardian has published quite a lot of articles recently expressing some concern over the use of smartphones. Emma\u00a0Beddington\u2019s piece (My phone knows what I want before I do. That should be worrying \u2013 but it\u2019s oddly comforting, 10 March) is perhaps the most …<\/p>\n

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