Starting with Android Pie, backups are encrypted with a key not known to Google[1]. Doesn't cover all of sync, but that is encouraging.
[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-h...
How to stay private when using Android
11–20 of 177 posts
Re: How to stay private when using Android
#1299% of the population don't want to essentially make their phone useless and difficult to use. This is the problem. Also that 99% doesn't care that the government knows they have downloaded Candy crush.
Also 99% "of the population" doesn't use Android.
Re: How to stay private when using Android
#13I hate iOS but good god android is awful! I bought a cheap one on new years to use as a balloon tracker (GPS boards are expensive so it seemed like a good idea.)
There are absolutely no diagnostics, every setting (including critical ones) seems to move around between OS updates. They’re constantly breaking things you actually need (termux API is missing half of what’s useful and silently fails on most things now) while still letting malware installed by manufacturers through. I think when I first connected the phone to a network it pulled down ~1Gb of shovelware including facebook. Thankfully it was on WiFi since I didn’t want to use up the data until we launched the balloon.
This of course never worked. It was able to connect and use data for about 30 minutes, I’m not sure what we did to make it work but it randomly stopped after that.
Mobile OSes need to die, they don’t help people they’re just another tool for corporations to push users through confusing broken mazes in order to manipulate them.
Re: How to stay private when using Android
#1499% of the population don't want to essentially make their phone useless and difficult to use. This is the problem. Also that 99% doesn't care that the government knows they have downloaded Candy crush.
10-20 years from now, they'll care that their heads are getting chopped off for future thought crimes that they are committing with their phones right now. Our porn habits will be used as justification to depopulate the world, while the elites continue to rape children for fun.
That got dark quick
Re: How to stay private when using Android
#1599% of the population don't want to essentially make their phone useless and difficult to use. This is the problem. Also that 99% doesn't care that the government knows they have downloaded Candy crush.
Also 99% "of the population" doesn't use Android.
What? I thought Android has market share in the billions. Where do you live? Mars?
Re: How to stay private when using Android
#1699% of the population don't want to essentially make their phone useless and difficult to use. This is the problem. Also that 99% doesn't care that the government knows they have downloaded Candy crush.
Also 99% "of the population" doesn't use Android.
> Today, it is estimated that more than 5 billion people have mobile devices, and over half of these connections are smartphones. [0]
> Android's smartphone share is hover around 87% [1]
> 7,600,000,000+ human population [2]
( 5 billion * 0.5 * 0.87 ) / 7.6 billion =
29% of the world has an Android
[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/02/05/smartphone-own...
Re: How to stay private when using Android
#17I hate iOS but good god android is awful! I bought a cheap one on new years to use as a balloon tracker (GPS boards are expensive so it seemed like a good idea.) There are absolutely no diagnostics, every setting (including critical ones) seems to move around between OS updates. They’re constantly breaking things you actually need (termux API is missing half of what’s useful and silently fails on most things now) whi…
I've found some iOS apps tremendously useful over the years, so no, I'll pass on your hangup condemning all Mobile OSes to death.
Re: How to stay private when using Android
#18[deleted]
Re: How to stay private when using Android
#19> 7. Review your cloud sync I used an Android device for a short while a few years ago. I disabled all sync functionality and would back up to my own storage device. After an OS update, all of the sync functionality was automatically enabled and everything on the device was uploaded to Google’s services anyway. So I deleted everything that was uploaded, then deleted my google account, and bought an iPhone and swore t…
This is so infuriating. sadly the majority of people have no idea just how deep the rabbit whole goes. They and their data are exploited at every turn for the gain of Google.
Re: How to stay private when using Android
#20Unfortunately all of these things are bandages on a sinking ship. They're technically better than nothing, but in reality they simply do not fix the problem. Even worse, it's possible (even probably) that some privacy controls simply do not do the think they say they do. You are essentially trusting a company with a rubbish track record in privacy violations to pinky swear they stop tracking you when you toggle a swi…
Exactly. Scottiestech's YouTube has some good info on how your smartphone is tracking you more than you think. Sometimes I think about building my own phone with a Raspberry Pi or use LineageOS.
AFAIK one of the best solutions for smartphone privacy is using a custom Android ROM without Google apps installed. Of course that means basically no 3rd party apps, but you can still get a surprising amount of functionality with just a web browser. You’ll still get tracked by your mobile provider, but I think that would happen even with a dumbphone.