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    [–] [email protected] 191 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

    Google "Only spy the web" is highly inaccurate...they are everywhere. In every website, in your android phone, in your YouTube, in your Google drive, in your email, in your Google maps...

    Anyways... I will calm down now. :)

    [–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    In your car, your TV, your network, your dns.....

    Everywhere.

    [–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    They are even part of paying for the massive underwater cables between continents that all internet traffic runs through.

    They took everything over.

    It's the most extensive surveillance network in the world.

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    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It's cute, people think their android os isn't collecting an embarrassing amount of data. Even if you turn everything off but cellular, it still phones home with cellular tower triangulation, app usage, call history, general web activity, weather the phone thinks your walking driving or riding a Bike, device diagnostics, etc.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yes but we do what we can.

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    in your android phone

    And if you try to revoke their spying access on a rooted stock device, they force a reboot ☹️

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Hence GrapheneOS sandboxing the Play Store. It is ironic that Google is the only phone manufacturer that allows for installing a different OS. But I suppose the fact that GrapheneOS has pushed security updates that have made it into stock Android and the fact that most users won't bother installing an alternative OS on their pixel phones is why they allow such shenanigans.

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    [–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Google spy through android as well

    [–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

    Mmm, chromeos 🤤

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I use lineageOS because of this

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    [–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Both Android and ChromeOS are Linux, and Google's spying there...

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    We should all be thankful that ChromeOS is flaming hot garbage that no one should be using on UX alone.

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    [–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Stalking. Spying sounds like a kids game or movie. This isn't observing. This isn't passive. It is actively exploiting. It is predatory, targeted, manipulative, with intent. It is stalking.

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    [–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Apple fanboys will lose their shit if they see this meme. I sometimes dont understand these fanboys like apple doesn't pay them nor does they credit these idiots for word of mouth free marketing instead these idiots pay top $ to buy their product and act like them invented it. Stupid mofos!!

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

    yeah i will never understand company fanboys they cheer for people that fuck them over it's like putting your hand in acid and saying it's good for you

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    [–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I think it is funny that this community thinks it knows everything about privacy and security and every time I see a post like this it becomes apparent that the main of this community doesn't.

    I like the Fediverse but it is a security and privacy nightmare.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

    It would be, if users were convinced it is anything other than a public place.

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    [–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    If you're forced to use Windows for some things, use Windows 10 LTSC. If you can't buy it (because Microsoft refuses to let consumers buy a non-spyware version of their OS) then sail the high seas for it. It takes the telemetry out and you'll have full control over the OS, can more easily remove Edge and can set your group policy and other stuff to completely block telemetry to your taste.

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    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

    Facebook: you guys hide it?

    [–] Hastur 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Google: Laughing in Android.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Google: Laughing in Chrome, scanning your entire file system

    Google: Laughing in bloody web DRM

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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    linux is not inherently immune ya'll

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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    All you can really do is make the spying as difficult as possible. That's really all we can do 🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Pretty sure Google also spies through the OS.

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

    somebody never reads the logs

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    the reason they put so many cameras on phones is not for selfies

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I always love that scene in Batman where he's hacked everyone's phone to see all their cameras.

    It looks like everyone in the world is standing around everywhere pointing their phone cameras in the most convenient directions to give a great view of streets, rooms and hallways everywhere.

    In real life, if you tuned into people's cameras right now, fifty percent would be the inside of pockets, purses or clothing. A quarter would be pointed at blank walls, ceilings, floors or the sky. And the rest would be terribly close close-ups of people faces or the shower/bathroom/sink.

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    If I remember correctly, it wasn't the cameras, it was the microphones. It was able to recreate 3d scenes with some kind of sonar algorithm (probably by combining the microphones from multiple people in the same room?) (I actually really liked Batman using sonar). 3d images from microphones still sounds farfetched but, may actually be possible soon

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