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From e Foundation website: "our mobile phones, even when using no Google service, connect to Google Servers tens of times per hour (91 times per hour for an And

From e Foundation website: "our mobile phones, even when using no Google service, connect to Google Servers tens of times per hour (91 times per hour for an Android mobile with a total amount of 11,6MB of data sent on a single day, and 51 times per hour for an iphone, corresponding to 5,7MB of data sent to Google servers)." With a reference to: https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DCN-Google-Data-Collection-Paper.pdf https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DC...

ma2rten 8y ago
Thanks. I didn't see that. Why exactly do iPhones send data to Google servers? Ads on apps/websites?
- johnklos 8y ago
  Section F, page 4 has a summary: f. While using an iOS device, if a user decides to forgo the use of any Google product (i.e. no Android, no Chrome, no Google applications), and visits only non-Google webpages, the number of times data is communicated to Google servers still remains surprisingly high. This communication is driven purely by advertiser/publisher services. The number of times such Google services are called from an iOS device is similar to an Android device. In this experiment, the total magnitude of data communicated to Google servers from an iOS device is found to be approximately half of that from the Android device.
- alain94040 8y ago
  From the article, I gather that the traffic is for google ads as you browse the web (AdSense).
  - tinus_hn 8y ago
    Don’t forget Google Analytics, Google Fonts and Google AMP?
- kcirtap-hs 8y ago
  iPhone uses Google as built-in search engine in Safari, thus indirectly compromising data privacy. And Apple is reported to get billions from Google for this https://community.e.foundation/t/google-could-be-paying-apple-9b-or-more-to-stay-safaris-default-search-engine/1223 https://community.e.foundation/t/google-could-be-paying-appl...
  - grzm 8y ago
    Google is "built-in" as far as it's the default. It is changeable and can also be set to Yahoo, Bing, or DuckDuckGo, as well as Google.

ma2rten 8y ago

Thanks. I didn't see that. Why exactly do iPhones send data to Google servers? Ads on apps/websites?

johnklos 8y ago
Section F, page 4 has a summary: f. While using an iOS device, if a user decides to forgo the use of any Google product (i.e. no Android, no Chrome, no Google applications), and visits only non-Google webpages, the number of times data is communicated to Google servers still remains surprisingly high. This communication is driven purely by advertiser/publisher services. The number of times such Google services are called from an iOS device is similar to an Android device. In this experiment, the total magnitude of data communicated to Google servers from an iOS device is found to be approximately half of that from the Android device.
alain94040 8y ago
From the article, I gather that the traffic is for google ads as you browse the web (AdSense).
- tinus_hn 8y ago
  Don’t forget Google Analytics, Google Fonts and Google AMP?
kcirtap-hs 8y ago
iPhone uses Google as built-in search engine in Safari, thus indirectly compromising data privacy. And Apple is reported to get billions from Google for this https://community.e.foundation/t/google-could-be-paying-apple-9b-or-more-to-stay-safaris-default-search-engine/1223 https://community.e.foundation/t/google-could-be-paying-appl...
- grzm 8y ago
  Google is "built-in" as far as it's the default. It is changeable and can also be set to Yahoo, Bing, or DuckDuckGo, as well as Google.