Google's new phones can't stop phoning home
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/08/water-thats-not-wet/#pixelated
A new report from Cybernews reveals just how much data the next generation Pixel 9 phones collect and transmit to Google, without any user intervention, and in defiance of the owner's express preferences to the contrary:
https://cybernews.com/security/google-pixel-9-phone-beams-data-and-awaits-commands/
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Yep.
Big Tech, convinced almost every American to carry a tracking device in their pocket.
they are brand agnostic
@corlin using a good DNS service can help here
Like CTRL-D set up per device
a heck of people think toggling the quick settings location to off actually stops apps from tracking their location - that isn't an opt-out, never has been, and never will be - is very surprising that people think that
"On a positive note, not a single data packet traveled to any third parties during the observation period"
@corlin lol… the first though i had, without reading the link, is the the poor things were probably homesick.
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