Sure, in the way that assuming all food is rotten is the only way to completely avoid food poisoning.
If, however, you don't subscribe to the starving lifestyle, such blanket assumption are useless.
Same for phones: do you just not use a phone? Does the poster above you rely on the heuristic that people using the term "pwned" generally don't have much of relevance to say anyway?
Because if everything is terrible, and everyone is corrupt, and there is absolutely no use in considering the probability that some options are less terrible than others, and that there may be signs the public can pick up on to make decisions, then congratulations: those believes do help in feeling really smug about your cynicism. But they don't really help otherwise.
Without NetGuard or similar all smartphones, everywhere, are indeed pwnd. The mistake made in using a food analogy is that, while both are consumables (consuming attention in the case of a phone) only one is a necessity to life.
If, however, you don't subscribe to the starving lifestyle, such blanket assumption are useless.
Same for phones: do you just not use a phone? Does the poster above you rely on the heuristic that people using the term "pwned" generally don't have much of relevance to say anyway?
Because if everything is terrible, and everyone is corrupt, and there is absolutely no use in considering the probability that some options are less terrible than others, and that there may be signs the public can pick up on to make decisions, then congratulations: those believes do help in feeling really smug about your cynicism. But they don't really help otherwise.