Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
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Re: Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
#2Couldnt this simply be the result of push notification checking and similar things that are done in the background? I do think the total amount of data used is a bit much but this do not seem unreasonable at all.
Re: Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
#3I wish Microsoft didn't kill windows mobile. The Android monopoly is terrible
Re: Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
#4I wish Microsoft didn't kill windows mobile. The Android monopoly is terrible
What did that get you that iOS doesn't? As far as I know they didn't allow alternative stores either.
Re: Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
#5Couldnt this simply be the result of push notification checking and similar things that are done in the background? I do think the total amount of data used is a bit much but this do not seem unreasonable at all.
The complaint spends several paragraphs detailing the types of traffic, the destination servers of that traffic, and what applications were running. It is doubtful, if the complaint is correct, that this resulted from push notifications.
Re: Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
#6Good that the root cause is being addressed. In the meantime, I'll be reducing the symptoms by routing all my DNS traffic through my pi.hole instance.
Re: Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
#7I wish Microsoft didn't kill windows mobile. The Android monopoly is terrible
What did that get you that iOS doesn't? As far as I know they didn't allow alternative stores either.
It got the market multiple vendors, Apple is the only manufacturer for iOS and Android is the only option for all other manufacturers.
Re: Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
#8netguard is your friend here, turn on access notifications to be disgusted at what your phone does while you aren't looking
Re: Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
#9I like the angle of privacy depending on how much you pay for not having it.
They either 1) need your personal-data to fund the services or 2) they don't need it and shouldn't have it. I don't see a 3rd where they need your personal-data only if you can pay for it. It gets really interesting where the IF is just giving them more of your personal-data.
Re: Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
#10Ever heard of NetGuard?
With it I block all relevant outgoing and incoming connections to doubleclick, google analytics, my carrier (t-mobile), app-measurements, facebook, etc... The phone attempts connection to one of these just about every second, and I block them all.
Hopefully the Librem phones will continue to mature and become my future phone.