I think you are mixing up several issues here. I too am worried about the increasing surveillance of various governments, and the rise of authoritarianism. But UBI doesn't have anything to do with that. There was no pilot program that I'm aware of where participants didn't get to keep the money. There was also no restrictions on internet usage or other restrictions put on them.
Of course UBI could be used by a government as a tool of oppression. But that doesn't make it inherently evil. I can use a hammer to kill someone, but I can also use it to help them. It is not the tool, but the use, that makes something good or evil.
I encourage you to read more about the various programs that have been done, many of them show great benefit for the people and the economy. The only ones that don't benefit from it are the billionaires and oligarchs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_pilots
I think this comic is more about the feeling of it. I certainly feel like my work-issued iphone gets more and more bogged-down with every major update, with less and less room for apps and media. It certainly feels like the only reason for the bloat is to goad me into buying cloud storage and/or a new model.
And just to be clear, I'm not hating on apple. Given the predatory nature of late-stage capitalism, apple is probably the least-shitty of the IT megacorps.