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Reject operating systems made by for-profit behavioral management conglomerates. It is still possible with alternatives like Lineage and GrapheneOS.
by 0daystock 4y ago
Reject operating systems made by for-profit behavioral management conglomerates. It is still possible with alternatives like Lineage and GrapheneOS.
- Teever 4y agoDoesn't Lineage still have some phone home features that let Google know what your IP is at all times?
- 0daystock 4y agoDon't think so, but please cite that if it's the case!
- kupfer 4y agoI think he is right. One of the places google servers are used is captive portal checks [1]. Here is a, albeit not very deep, thread discussing how to disable it and you can easily find reports of losing internet access on lineage if you block google addresses on your network. Otherwise a connection to google servers is made every hour or so. I remember reading, that this is not the only place in LOS, that google servers are used, but I never looked into it. 1: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-how-to-avoid-the-captive-portal-checkin-to-google.3927561/ https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-how-to-avoid-the-ca...
- 0daystock 4y agoThe captive portal check is a cookieless, cacheless request. Sure, you could argue Google "has your IP address" but it's a pretty absurd thing to worry about.
- Teever 4y agoIf your goal is to ensure that google has as little data about you as possible, this is not a pretty absurd thing to worry about.
- fsflover 4y agoOr, better, abandon Google-controlled operating systems completely and consider GNU/Linux phones, Librem 5 or Pinephone.