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What is the cost of privacy? How much would you pay to have total control of your data? Because that’s the price of Facebook / Google. At least with Google, yo
by wayoutthere 7y ago
What is the cost of privacy? How much would you pay to have total control of your data? Because that’s the price of Facebook / Google.
At least with Google, you can get some modicum if privacy and improved security by paying for G-Suite on a private domain (you have way more control of your data policy that way). But it doesn’t change the fact that >90% of their revenue and nearly all their profit comes from advertising.
Facebook is pure cancer, and should die in a fire.
- throwaway7363 7y agoYou get privacy with Google ? Root your phone and check how often your Android phones home 1e100.net . Even the stupidest of things like opening the phone settings will make Android to call up big brother. I can only imagine what they do when you login to the phone.
- StavrosK 7y agoI wonder if ROMs like LineageOS remove this telemetry.
- oil25 7y agoThe telemetry mostly comes from Google Play Services, which are optional on LineageOS. I've been using my phone without it and side-loading open source programs - no issues so far and no telemetry collected as far as I can see.
- StavrosK 7y agoAh, in that case I wonder if MicroG has the same sort of telemetry, as that's what I've installed in my LOS ROM...
- hiram112 7y agoWhat are the biggest issues for you with removing Play Services? Wouldn't this remove the ability to use almost all commercial / Play Store apps and leave you with what's available on F-Droid or similar?I At that point - with 90% of apps gone - I might as well get an old BlackBerry or something and get by with just basic IMap mail, calendar, contacts, and SMS.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoWonder if a VPN adblocker (no root needed) will suffice in blocking the phoning home?
- oil25 7y agoNo root necessary - https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard - although LineageOS or some other non-Google OS is a great idea anyway.
- wayoutthere 7y agoI don’t use Android; but Google does have far more privacy options if you pay. You can disable various tracking / mining functionality. My guess with that is that they’re using Google Analytics for click stream data. Welcome to like 50% of mobile apps out there.