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You 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 setti
by throwaway7363 7y ago
You 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.