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On my Pixel 2XL, I cannot set temperature to Celsius on my home and lock screen unless I allow this setting.
When I had my Pixel I remember not being able to save reminders or events with the assisstant unless I enabled Google Now Cards, which shoved advertisements and bullshit articles onto my home screen
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It's harder than it looks. In theory, there's microg, in reality, if you do a complete un-googling, most push notifications won't come through. If you do want to try it: - factory reset the phone to get rid of any google accounts - root the phone - get "System app remover (ROOT)"[^1] - remove all google applications, except google play services and framework - reboot - remove remaining google applications - reboot -…
Thanks, but I was more thinking along the lines of installing a new OS (Linux) and running Android apps (e.g. for banking) in a sandbox. Is that possible?
I've been trying to do this on my linux, so far, I failed; all the android emulators are extremely slow.
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I had uninstalled Apple Maps [1] from my iPhone after iOS 11 upgrade because it was useless. Apple put it back with iOS 12 upgrade and I have kept it around so far. It is still useless here in India [1]. Often I sadly have no alternative to Google apps. I have tried at least a dozen apps (online/offline) and nothing even comes close to Google Maps. Of course other features like News etc are not even shown on the app…
How does OsmAnd fare in your region? Curiously, I find that it's often more detailed and accurate than Google Maps hereabouts.
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I switched my assistant app to Cortana, if you can believe that. It works well enough, and doesn't require every permission to be enabled. It'll work fine with whatever you give it. (Within reason. It can't give you information about your calendar unless you give it that permission, etc.) Reminders and such get synced to my PC. There are, of course, many holes in its functionality... hoping it gets better. Don't know…
How did you completely get rid of Google Assistant on an android phone? Did it involve rooting it?
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Are you sharing your location? Maybe nothing is stored, but your current location is used for searches you make.
I've had the same results when I've explicitly not shared location. I will also use Google maps to find the route to some restaurant, turn off the GPS because I don't like being tracked and it's no too far, then head to the restaurant within 10-60 minutes of when I checked the GPS. If I have wifi on I will invariably get asked to rate the restaurant within 5 minutes of arriving there, regardless of how much time has…
What is your Google Maps alternative of choice for Android? I wish OsmAnd ( https://osmand.net/ ) would be more interactive on the map and complete regarding addresses. For example if I want to know which bus or subway to take to get from A to B in Hamburg I always have to resort to Maps.
I'm not sure why people are surprised. Google has been downright evil for quite a while now. They do this in all their products, down to the point of intentionally crippling them. For instance, since Android 5, the standard contact app doesn't allow you to modify a contact which is not synced with an account. Why even do this? The list of tracking settings that can be turned permanently on, but only temporarily off i…
It is true that Google has done this several times over, but we shouldn't normalize it as nothing new, move on. We should still call it out each and every time we see it, even if we are repeating ourselves. Also, what might be obvious to our community is not to those outside, which in the end are the majority.
I'm not sure why people are surprised. Google has been downright evil for quite a while now. They do this in all their products, down to the point of intentionally crippling them. For instance, since Android 5, the standard contact app doesn't allow you to modify a contact which is not synced with an account. Why even do this? The list of tracking settings that can be turned permanently on, but only temporarily off i…
Does anyone know a decent alternative? (please don't say waze)
I'm not sure why people are surprised. Google has been downright evil for quite a while now. They do this in all their products, down to the point of intentionally crippling them. For instance, since Android 5, the standard contact app doesn't allow you to modify a contact which is not synced with an account. Why even do this? The list of tracking settings that can be turned permanently on, but only temporarily off i…
I finally divested this Spring after giving Google six months to come out with something that would reawaken my old optimism. Besides coming out with a mean go engine, all the news out of Google in that time was depressing.
I'm frankly surprised at how easily a true believer like myself could do a one-eighty in their opinion of the company. I know there's a possibility that they turn this thing around and I look foolish, but they'd have to do that without my cheerleading.