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“It’s a lot worse than any of the mainstream browsers I have seen,” It's a lot worse than Chrome ? The Xiaomi browser tracks your browsing. The Google browser in combination with the most of the sites in the internet track your browsing, your location, and a lot of other things. Choosing the lesser evil is quite popular now days, and it's obvious which one it is.
Safari?
Does this also happen with Android One phones?
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Would someone who is downvoting this be willing to explain why? Because I have the same impression (that many GDPR rules are simply being ignored because enforcement is lacking).
The typical response I get to such comments is that Google did get fined 50M once in France. The problem is that not only is it pocket money to them but Google continues to violate people's privacy (Google Analytics still tries to stalk me everywhere without asking for consent first). When it comes to Facebook I am not aware of any investigation or enforcement action being taken despite them being even worse than Goo…
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Are there any resources describing what you lose and gain by installing LineageOS? I'd like to know what will stop working before I try it out...
While we are on the topic of lineageos, I would appreciate if someone could recommend which device to get for it. When I tried to check earlier, it seemed every device was either Chinese (privacy concern) Google-made (privacy-concern), many years outdated, or only unofficially supported. Is there even a single way to run lineageos without making significant tradeoffs?
Xiaomi produces one of the best bang for your bucks hardware in the market. Their software is crap though. Ads in the system apps, ui customization that arguably looks worse than stock android, and now blanket tracking like this, though it was always pinging their tracking servers frequently. My pihole logs pretty much full with blocked xiaomi requests until I flashed the phone. Best thing to do when you got an andro…
Problem is lately many banking app required you to use non-root phone, at least in my country. There used to be workaround, but it is not work anymore. I have Redmi phone and I hates it as soon as I found that there is ads in their rom. It's so disappointing. I mean, other Chinese brand have their own crapware yes, but ads? I then flash my phone to pure Pixel rom and never been happier, until the bank app incident ha…
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Are there any resources describing what you lose and gain by installing LineageOS? I'd like to know what will stop working before I try it out...
It probably depends on the device, but in the best case you are not losing anything. Especially as you can install google services, so Google Play and everything around it works. The only apps that stopped working on my Poco F1 are apps that check for modified Android. For example my Australian digital drivers license app doesn't work as it detects the Android environment as non-standard. I believe you can do some ro…
This is starting to not be the case, I couldn't get the wide angle camera working on my newer Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite for example. I had to fall back to miui.eu based rom to get it to work.
Xiaomi produces one of the best bang for your bucks hardware in the market. Their software is crap though. Ads in the system apps, ui customization that arguably looks worse than stock android, and now blanket tracking like this, though it was always pinging their tracking servers frequently. My pihole logs pretty much full with blocked xiaomi requests until I flashed the phone. Best thing to do when you got an andro…
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There's no such thing as anonymized when it comes to data tracking. "Anonymized" tracking itself is gaslighting.
It's anonymized in the sense that you don't know who it will be sold to and what they will do with it. In all seriousness, this is a point GDPR struggles with. It's really hard to properly define what constitutes personal data.
The same data can be both PII and not PII depending on the context.
Not sure what the struggle is?
I recently wiped my factory-unlocked Samsung S20, enabled debug mode, and ran "pm list packages" over ADB. The results were beyond startling. There were close to 100 packages running under com.samsung and other various namespaces with tons of sensitive permissions. Most of these processes I could not identify what they existed for. And I still can't figure out why a freshly wiped unlocked phone w/ a Sprint SIM is run…
I wonder if it is illegal under GDPR to include spying apps on phones without telling the user.