Google refutes report that the Pixel 9 Pro XL is collecting too much personal data
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- Nick Query
- 7k4
- 11 Oct 2024
on device storing the data; does that mean google won't collect it?
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- Anonymous
- Sr6
- 11 Oct 2024
Step 3: to uninstall bloatware open terminal and type this:
adb shell
su
pm uninstall com.facebook.system
Your phone must be rooted for this trick to work!!!
This is how you can easily debloat your phone to make it work faster!!!
Enjoy this trick!
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- Anonymous
- IT%
- 11 Oct 2024
Step 2: Identify Facebook Packages
In the ADB shell, run the command
pm list packages | grep facebook
to list all Facebook-related packages.
Note the package names:
com.facebook.system
com.facebook.appmanager
com.facebook.services.
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- Anonymous
- IT%
- 11 Oct 2024
Just an FYI,
Facebook install HIDDEN APPS on all the android we have
com.facebook.system
com.facebook.appmanager
com.facebook.services
These 3 apps run on every android in the background, and there's no UI.
All android, except the one that from China
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- Smartwatchguy
- Yde
- 11 Oct 2024
Anonymous, 11 Oct 2024Every phone or every company or every social media collects... moreHilarious and scary since there are real people that actually apply this logic.
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- Anonymous
- Sr6
- 11 Oct 2024
your private data is worth millions to these big corporations. Better be careful with your private data. Never share it with anyone for free. always ask for millions first. Then share it.
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- SShock
- AKj
- 11 Oct 2024
Anonymous, 11 Oct 2024Every phone or every company or every social media collects... moreUm, no. This is why they all take our private data for granted. Because everyone just accepted it. Just look how everyone is willing to just give away all their privacy for all the Google stuff that's "free".
I recommend using DuckDuckGo app and enable app filtering through virtual VPN that runs locally and blocks a lot of trackers and analytics, very likely including Android's default data harvesting. Android also has controls to disable analytics which are of course enabled by default and usually pre-checked and people just click "Continue". Other option are Secure DNS with filtering like Adguard DNS or NextDNS (and many others).
People need to step up and start to care about their privacy even if it looks "insignificant". Corporations prey on ignorance of people, because you have to have some effort to block their data hoarding and most isn't willing to bother, even though it takes very little effort in beginning and that's it.
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- Anonymous
- xqE
- 11 Oct 2024
*Surprised Pikachu face*
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- Anonymous
- Ib5
- 11 Oct 2024
Every phone or every company or every social media collects your personal information. So unless you are a criminal don't worry at all.
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- mae.emery
- MIu
- 11 Oct 2024
raditz594, 11 Oct 2024 They are a business that exists to make money. You think t... more1) That's an indictment in an of itself.
2) Even if we accept the premise that this is fine when a product/service is offered for free, why is this logic being applied to smartphones? These companies charge a pretty penny both for the hardware and the software that comes with them (and Pixels in particular aren't exactly the cheapest Android devices on the market, despite almost always shipping with outdated hardware).
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- astolfo
- KsU
- 11 Oct 2024
raditz594, 11 Oct 2024 They are a business that exists to make money. You think t... moreGoogle was/is/will attemp to mandate the Internet and control it as they seem fit. That's their end goal and why Google search is free, along with their ambitious Chrome project.
If it were up to Google, they would put 15 seconds ads on every click you do on the Internet before letting you browse to your desired website
- vrvly
- Bps
- 11 Oct 2024
Considering how annoying are ads on youtube, I wouldn't believe google easily about that...
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- Anonymous
- YUU
- 11 Oct 2024
Anonymous, 11 Oct 2024China vesion of Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo, Honor
Don't have ... moreI'm not sure either to clap or boooo you. Do you think by no Google app service install in your phone, Google won't have your data?? Ohh boy, how naive you can be 🤦🏻♂️
Hit: who made Android? China?? 🤦🏻♂️
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- raditz594
- x04
- 11 Oct 2024
pl2rts, 11 Oct 2024I would say it's too much already when google collect ... more They are a business that exists to make money. You think they are going to provide their services to you as a public service?
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- astolfo
- KsU
- 11 Oct 2024
It's not a conspiracy theory that phones lasted longer on battery before bc almost no call to home was done.
Symbian was probably the last OS without all that crap on top of it. Android has been rebuilt to serve Google's needs. There's no way AOSP is actually clean of it. And only God knows what iOS has behind the scene.
SailFishOS maybe is the only current clean mobile OS.
Same thing can be said about Chromium and its derivatives. Every single Google product is a venom to its market, and the less people follow and praise Google around, the better it will be for everyone.
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- Anonymous
- IbL
- 11 Oct 2024
This isn't new, for years we all knew that data collecting was going on whether android, ios, windows etc. I think people get scared that the government or other individuals are spying on them 24/7 looking at their every web search. Data collection is done behind the scenes, the info goes to the servers and stays there forever. After a month of news like this the majority of the people don't even care. I do wish google made it easier to delete stored data, sometimes there are many hidden options to delete that unless you click on each option you can't find.
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- Anonymous
- 0Uc
- 11 Oct 2024
Welp, guess it's time to start training pigeons again...
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- Anonymous
- pU%
- 11 Oct 2024
Darth Caesium, 11 Oct 2024Google is wrong here, as are the people who are saying &quo... moreWe don't know If between a Pixel and Samsung phone, the amount of data google collects is the same.
And the data collected by Samsung is basically the same.
But I can agree that It is worse, that your data is collected by 2 instead of just one.
But relatively speaking that they "don't collect too much data on you" is just not true.
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- Anonymous
- Fek
- 11 Oct 2024
A lot of people are going to read this wrongly.
It is not that Google claims they don't collect too much data, but that they do not collect more data than they claim to collect.
They, just like Apple collect a lot of data for their own use, but if anybody ever read what they collect (most people never read it and just agree), the mountain of text both provide does explain in detail what they collect, why, for what purpose and for who (mostly for themselves, they don't need to sell it)
Where all chinese brands and samsung vaguely explain to you with who they share their data (fun fact, all chinese brands and samsung at least sell your data to others, in case of samsung and xiaomi only if you make a corresponding account on their devices, not of you only use google services because then that list is smaller)
Bonus: direct from china devices do send data to chinese servers.
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- Darth Caesium
- BiP
- 11 Oct 2024
Google is wrong here, as are the people who are saying "X brand doesn't use Google Play Services, therefore much better for privacy". All phone OEMs collect masses and masses of data on you, including Apple — they are literally the 4th largest advertiser — and only by flashing custom ROMs tailored specifically for privacy like GrapheneOS can you stop this from happening.
Google's refutation only means something in the sense that other phones aren't any better, and with some like Samsung, it's worse because you have multiple entities to be worried about —i.e. with Samsung phones, both Google *and* Samsung collect vast amounts of data about you. Google collects too much (and I personally would draw that line relatively early), but it's nowhere near some other brands and so only relatively speaking, they "don't" collect too much data on you.