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> Egelman said the researchers notified Google about these issues last September, as well as the FTC. Google said it would be addressing the issues in Android Q

> Egelman said the researchers notified Google about these issues last September, as well as the FTC. Google said it would be addressing the issues in Android Q, which is expected to release this year. A whole year to get a solution out?! Google is clearly demonstrating where it stands when it concerns privacy. With the usual low penetration of the latest release of Android, this will probably be “solved” for the majority of the devices in four years from now. Sigh! Edit: Why not crack down on apps through updates to the Play Store policies and rules? Apple seems to use that tactic sometimes.

Slashbot 7y ago
When Google doesn't and never has given a fuck about users privacy, it sets a clear standard and example for all the rest of bludgers doing the same... Ironically, when you look at most of the obfuscated shite being peddled through javascrap, and all these damn ad and analytic networks.. they are all pretty much doing the same kind of user interest/mouse/click tracking etc... so gooble's dfp adplatform collects most of the same data... do they share it, with the rest of the 'ad partners' and save them from running the same sort of js crap via there own scripts.. nope... so end users end up loading pages in some cases more than 1mb worth of useless javascrap all doing the same shit. And to hell with google ever providing adequate control over what in the javascrap api is allowed to be run on a users browser... I might be fine with some functionality of javascrap being able to run in order for websites to provide better functionality and design. But when you have to accept that just by allowing javascrap in order to get a functioning website you have to allow all of the rest of its possible bad behaviour of privacy and security abuse issues... do google care.. hell no, they've been finding ways to get lazy web developers hooked on making literately every site they come across into using and relying on third party scripts.. and it started off with recaptcha crap, site analytics, ad platform serving, to the ultimate point of insanity where entire websites (or crap apps) are rendered with overcomplicated shit like react and angular etc... you literately don't even get a semi functioning website with javascrap disabled now.. html/css specs have been left in stagnation while everyone has pursued abusing the hell out of javascrap into doing everything. so to hell with the w3c, google, mozilla, microsoft etc.. they've all turned the internet into a pile of poo... now advertisement images come with more js shite behind it to run than the ad image itself... and I was fine with image baseed advertisements on a page... I'm not fine with the level of privacy invasion and shitty cookie popups prompts pretending to offer me choice on data collection etc.... these cunts and the EU all need to go take a hike into hell.
izacus 7y ago
> Edit: Why not crack down on apps through updates to the Play Store policies and rules? Apple seems to use that tactic sometimes. Google has been doing that a lot lately and has created the appropriate amount of heavy complaining from the side of developers. Still, auditing source code for every one of those things is pretty much impossible - even iOS apps use a lot of such tricks to fingerprint users and Apple has a hard time keeping on top as well.

Slashbot 7y ago

When Google doesn't and never has given a fuck about users privacy, it sets a clear standard and example for all the rest of bludgers doing the same... Ironically, when you look at most of the obfuscated shite being peddled through javascrap, and all these damn ad and analytic networks.. they are all pretty much doing the same kind of user interest/mouse/click tracking etc... so gooble's dfp adplatform collects most of the same data... do they share it, with the rest of the 'ad partners' and save them from running the same sort of js crap via there own scripts.. nope... so end users end up loading pages in some cases more than 1mb worth of useless javascrap all doing the same shit. And to hell with google ever providing adequate control over what in the javascrap api is allowed to be run on a users browser... I might be fine with some functionality of javascrap being able to run in order for websites to provide better functionality and design. But when you have to accept that just by allowing javascrap in order to get a functioning website you have to allow all of the rest of its possible bad behaviour of privacy and security abuse issues... do google care.. hell no, they've been finding ways to get lazy web developers hooked on making literately every site they come across into using and relying on third party scripts.. and it started off with recaptcha crap, site analytics, ad platform serving, to the ultimate point of insanity where entire websites (or crap apps) are rendered with overcomplicated shit like react and angular etc... you literately don't even get a semi functioning website with javascrap disabled now.. html/css specs have been left in stagnation while everyone has pursued abusing the hell out of javascrap into doing everything. so to hell with the w3c, google, mozilla, microsoft etc.. they've all turned the internet into a pile of poo... now advertisement images come with more js shite behind it to run than the ad image itself... and I was fine with image baseed advertisements on a page... I'm not fine with the level of privacy invasion and shitty cookie popups prompts pretending to offer me choice on data collection etc.... these cunts and the EU all need to go take a hike into hell.

izacus 7y ago

> Edit: Why not crack down on apps through updates to the Play Store policies and rules? Apple seems to use that tactic sometimes. Google has been doing that a lot lately and has created the appropriate amount of heavy complaining from the side of developers. Still, auditing source code for every one of those things is pretty much impossible - even iOS apps use a lot of such tricks to fingerprint users and Apple has a hard time keeping on top as well.