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1. Turn off Google location history. 2. Disable all Google apps' access to your location. 3. Disable Android's "high accuracy location" if possible in your An
by titzer 5y ago
1. Turn off Google location history.
2. Disable all Google apps' access to your location.
3. Disable Android's "high accuracy location" if possible in your Android version. This little snitch collects terrifyingly precise "anonymized" location information fused with device sensors.
Do not accept surveillance in the name of convenience. And don't let Google normalize even more intrusion into our lives. Don't use their services.
- NoImmatureAdHom 5y agoAnd, I might add, consider GrapheneOS and CalyxOS as alternative operating systems for your Pixel phone. https://grapheneos.org/ https://grapheneos.org/ https://calyxos.org/ https://calyxos.org/ GrapheneOS is more security-focused, CalyxOS is more privacy-focused, and they're both a step in the right direction.
- sphinxcdi 5y agoGrapheneOS isn't less focused on privacy than security or than the other one. They recently made a thread addressing this: https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1424412990074494979 https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1424412990074494979
- NoImmatureAdHom 5y agoYou're probably right. They have different philosophies and threat models.
- Razengan 5y agoAnd whenever you sign into any Google app or service, delete all Google cookies afterwards, to prevent the automatic shared sign-in into Google Search. Fuck that scummy pattern really.
- jdavis703 5y agoI actually prefer auto-sign in. I don’t want to do the whole 2-factor rigmarole in a dozen different apps. Perhaps they can make it an option though.
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- xrobledo84 5y ago4. Replace your Android device with an iPhone.