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Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway (timsh.org)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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An amazing bit of digital detective work here. Seems like Linux mobile is your only off ramp from being exhaustively tracked

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I think it's more: "Don't use a smartphone". It'll send those requests through any internet connection. No matter if it's a VPN or Tor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Google hardcodes DNS into their hardware appliances...
So you'd need to block outgoing DNS requests except for your DNS server and god forbid you change location with a smartphone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

I think this is about apps and not the operating system. But yeah, the stock ROMs also phone home to Google. You'd need to patch that. For example like custom ROMs like GrapheneOS do. I don't see another viable alternative. But that still leaves you with the issues with the apps mentioned in the article.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I forgot I'm in a minority of people running a properly secure degoogled ROM.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Same, same. But the occasional app refusing to work due to missing Play services, all the Instagram posts everyone except me took notice of, and all the hoops I have to jump through, kind of remind me of that regularly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

@hendrik @muntedcrocodile then don't use that app. Done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

Just comes with the downside that I can't take part in every day life, talk to my friends, stay connected with old friends, borrow an electric bicycle, transfer money easily... I have to drive to a shop only to see it's closed and they posted that on Instagram... I mean there's a whole world out there which I don't just want to disconnect from and become some sort of hermit...