this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
654 points (98.8% liked)

Privacy

31128 readers
646 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6469594

How to contact your MEP.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or Android with Google Play. It already does this BS, even if you disable scanning.

Lineage/Graphene/DivestOS here I come.

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yesterday Google play kindly un-installed KDE connect for my "security" as it is a "dangerous app"

I promptly re-installed from f-Droid.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

But all the Google defenders will say "it was for our own good" or the app dev did something that looked suspicious. 🤦‍♂️

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And since I didn't want to root my old phone, I just disabled all of the Google services via adb.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

But, but, now your phone could be hacked!! 🤣

(yes, sarcasm, lol)

The Google bootlickers tell me my phone is at risk since it's rooted. As if every single Linux, Unix, and Windows box doesn't have root access for specific users. And Windows is so flawed they require a privilege escalation to perform fairly innocuous functions.