Geee thanks twitter ... you can learn nothing for me from the fact that I have grindr installed /sarcasm
“We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Use https://search.disconnect.me/ . You can use Bing, DuckDuckgo, Google or Yahoo as the search engine. "We don’t collect any of your personal info, including your IP address, other than information you voluntarily provide." See https://disconnect.me/privacy .
If too many people use this site, Google (and probably others too) will ban the IP.
I doubt it. Even if Google can't use the data they're getting from searches done via that service to target ads to specific people, they're still getting valuable data on what people search for generally.
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#103Raise your hand if you feel like this is an unwarranted breach of privacy, but you have a gmail account and heavily depend on Google services. Raises own hand. I was so trusting and willing to give away my emails to Google when I was a kid (despite being fully aware of their intentions), but now, even though privacy infringements from all these other companies disturb me, I'm still a hypocritical sheep in Google's he…
I've never been able to understand why anyone with a clue uses Gmail. I just have all my devices sync to an IMAP server provided by an ISP. Android phones have a perfectly good IMAP client. No ads, reasonably good spam filtering, and reasonably good search capability.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there an API in iOS to get information about other apps? How is Twitter doing it? I thought all apps were 'sandboxed' in iOS.
Apps can register custom URL schemes to enable other apps to open them, pass them data and even deep-link to within them. There is an official API called canOpenUrl: which will let you check if a particular URL scheme is registered on a particular device. So that, along with a database of public URL schemes published by other apps, lets you detect which apps are installed. I wasn't aware of this before but apparently…
There is also private API that is not very difficult to hide, which gives you all the installed app bundle identifiers.
Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”
#105Raise your hand if you feel like this is an unwarranted breach of privacy, but you have a gmail account and heavily depend on Google services. Raises own hand. I was so trusting and willing to give away my emails to Google when I was a kid (despite being fully aware of their intentions), but now, even though privacy infringements from all these other companies disturb me, I'm still a hypocritical sheep in Google's he…
I've never been able to understand why anyone with a clue uses Gmail. I just have all my devices sync to an IMAP server provided by an ISP. Android phones have a perfectly good IMAP client. No ads, reasonably good spam filtering, and reasonably good search capability.
To me that's even worse. You are stuck with your ISP. What if you move home to a place where this ISP isn't available?
There are commercial email providers in jurisdictions that do respect privacy. And it usually only costs the price of a couple of coffees per year.
Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”
#106Raise your hand if you feel like this is an unwarranted breach of privacy, but you have a gmail account and heavily depend on Google services. Raises own hand. I was so trusting and willing to give away my emails to Google when I was a kid (despite being fully aware of their intentions), but now, even though privacy infringements from all these other companies disturb me, I'm still a hypocritical sheep in Google's he…
I've never been able to understand why anyone with a clue uses Gmail. I just have all my devices sync to an IMAP server provided by an ISP. Android phones have a perfectly good IMAP client. No ads, reasonably good spam filtering, and reasonably good search capability.
Sorry, I don't understand your reasoning.
Why do you trust your ISP more than Google? ISPs have much more shady practices and are able to match your online and real persona with 100% accuracy.
If you care about privacy, why do you use Android(non-cyanogen I assume)?
Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apps can register custom URL schemes to enable other apps to open them, pass them data and even deep-link to within them. There is an official API called canOpenUrl: which will let you check if a particular URL scheme is registered on a particular device. So that, along with a database of public URL schemes published by other apps, lets you detect which apps are installed. I wasn't aware of this before but apparently…
There is also private API that is not very difficult to hide, which gives you all the installed app bundle identifiers.
How would you hide calls to private APIs?
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never been able to understand why anyone with a clue uses Gmail. I just have all my devices sync to an IMAP server provided by an ISP. Android phones have a perfectly good IMAP client. No ads, reasonably good spam filtering, and reasonably good search capability.
To me that's even worse. You are stuck with your ISP. What if you move home to a place where this ISP isn't available? There are commercial email providers in jurisdictions that do respect privacy. And it usually only costs the price of a couple of coffees per year.
You're not locked in if you own the DNS registration.
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#109Android user? Just go to settings > applications and count how many times 'Google' appears in there. Twitter is a small child
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never been able to understand why anyone with a clue uses Gmail. I just have all my devices sync to an IMAP server provided by an ISP. Android phones have a perfectly good IMAP client. No ads, reasonably good spam filtering, and reasonably good search capability.
Sorry, I don't understand your reasoning. Why do you trust your ISP more than Google? ISPs have much more shady practices and are able to match your online and real persona with 100% accuracy. If you care about privacy, why do you use Android(non-cyanogen I assume)?
Theoretically the ISP is being paid for providing the service, while Google ... well...