• smoothbrain coldtakes
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          1 year ago

          Using Google products has always been a “privacy nightmare” - it’s not like this is some mega open source phone or anything it’s literally Google’s flagship. Is this really surprising? Playing with fire gets you burned.

          • Entropy
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            151 year ago

            Googles phones are the easiest to de-google surprisingly

            • @KISSmyOS
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              • Entropy
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                81 year ago

                I’m not surprised at all, I’ve been trying to not use googles services for years

              • @paintbucketholder
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                41 year ago

                And if you do, they won’t upload your stuff to the cloud anymore.

                Wait - is that praise or criticism?

                • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ
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                  11 year ago

                  both! some people want Google’s features and don’t care about privacy.

        • @Mojojojo1993
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          11 year ago

          In what way ? Everything you do on phone Google has access to and therefore any govt body as well.

          Privacy on a phone is a myth unless you use a modded phone

      • @9point6
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        91 year ago

        Even ignoring all the privacy issues with that, it’s kinda shit to unnecessarily lose phone features when you’ve got no signal

        • @Eldritch
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          01 year ago

          That’s how phones have always worked. As long as they are not automatically ingesting data from people without permission. I don’t see an issue with this. At least in this instance we have some choice in what we send or don’t. It’s no more privacy nightmare than mid-Journey doll-e or any of the others.