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[–] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because it's a privacy nightmare.

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Using Google products has always been a "privacy nightmare" - it's not like this is some mega open source phone or anything it's literally Google's flagship. Is this really surprising? Playing with fire gets you burned.

[–] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Googles phones are the easiest to de-google surprisingly

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And if you do, they won't upload your stuff to the cloud anymore.
But if you use Google's OS and services, you really shouldn't be surprised they upload your data to Google.

[–] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I’m not surprised at all, I’ve been trying to not use googles services for years

[–] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if you do, they won't upload your stuff to the cloud anymore.

Wait - is that praise or criticism?

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

both! some people want Google's features and don't care about privacy.

[–] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In what way ? Everything you do on phone Google has access to and therefore any govt body as well.

Privacy on a phone is a myth unless you use a modded phone

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even ignoring all the privacy issues with that, it's kinda shit to unnecessarily lose phone features when you've got no signal

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

That's how phones have always worked. As long as they are not automatically ingesting data from people without permission. I don't see an issue with this. At least in this instance we have some choice in what we send or don't. It's no more privacy nightmare than mid-Journey doll-e or any of the others.