Yes, Google’s code processes every touch, they wrote Android after all, so you are technically correct.
Is it all being sent somewhere from every Android device? Of course not, that’s ridiculous. Individual apps might have various levels of usage analytics though.
The entire thing is for running Linux software on Windows, it’s the complete opposite of Wine.
If that counts as recording then all phone calls are recorded by your microphone, in order to send the sound to the other party.
You should absolutely use GrapheneOS, but why would this optional offline feature sway you to it?
They calls are not recorded, are they? They are transcribed live.
They could also spy on you without providing this feature at all. I get not trusting Google, and you shouldn’t be using a Google Pixel in that case. But in the event that you are using a Google Pixel, this optional feature is only a positive. If Pixels spy on you, then they are doing it with this or without it.
The ads don’t cover anything though, the video continues where it stopped before the ads.
It’s 25% safer, which is closer to “much” safer than “marginally” safer in my mind, but yes I decided it’s better to let the data speak for itself and avoid such subjective qualifiers.
It is more expensive, which is why I prefer wind and solar to nuclear, but we were talking about safety specifically, not which tech is “better overall”.
I provided a source, you said “it’s not”. Forgive me if I ignore your comment unless you also provide a source.
Yes. Wind turbines maintenance is a dangerous job that sometimes results in injury or death. Nuclear power is safer, per kWh.
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldwide-by-energy-source/
This link proves how robust the security research is and how quickly bugs like that are patched.
While these bugs happen, they are fixed very quickly, and wouldn’t be used by any marketing agency. Just keep your phone updated.
Comments like this try to make you give up on privacy by making it look like all is lost from the get to.
They are lying, don’t believe them, there is a lot you can do to protect your privacy.
That helps with other dangers, but in this case all you need to do is not give “Pool 3D” access to the microphone, no rooting required.
Yeah, and all I said is you can do tracking without them, as you confirmed, so I don’t know what you are disagreeing with.
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Yes, you can do tracking without displaying any buttons, I don’t know what to tell you.
Yeah, but you can do the same tracking without actually displaying any buttons, so the point stands.
Your own server where you self-host it isn’t under US jurisdiction. It is quite expreme to be wary of open source projects just because the current main developers are based in the US. Sure, there is no guarantee Ente will remain good in the long term, but then there is neither for Immich.
Issues like what? It’s an open source project that you self-host, with end to end encryption. I don’t see how it compares to sending your photos in plain view to Google.
Yes, I’m sure he’s angry people are diluting the invigilation he exposed by coming up with fake ones all the time, and making people think it’s not worth fighting it anymore.
Do you have something constructive to say? Did you read an interesting article about a new type of tracking by a security researcher? Maybe you ran your own network capture and found something previously unknown? Great, let’s share that and learn how to block it.
Do you just wave your hands around and say that Google knows everything about you at all times using all Android devices, through unspecified means based on your gut feeling? Then that’s not constructive and is just spreading helplessness.
Oh Google logs and collect all taps on the screen? I’d love to know through which system service that happens, how the data leaves the device, to which servers is it going, which devices are affected by this, and how we can disable it. Oh you made it up and actually there are no details? Right.