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Google just took over my Android
Self | 1-15-22 | Self

Posted on 01/15/2022 7:23:02 AM PST by G Larry

Received a mandatory update (34) alert on my Samsung Galaxy S10e. You can delay the install, but not avoid it.

Now all internet access starts from a Google Chrome page. While you can uninstall Google Chrome, you also lose access to Google maps.

And those duckduckgo searches you thought were private....uh, no, they are sitting there listed as "recent searches".


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: android; google; samsung; vanity
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To: Disambiguator

My Samsung 6S has another problem... Samsung/Google bloated the operating system so that I can’t fit very many programs on the phone now.

It’s their way to get me to upgrade from a phone that (otherwise) does everything I want it to do.


21 posted on 01/15/2022 7:52:51 AM PST by TWohlford
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To: ALASKA

I am sitting next to a portable HAM.
The only thing stopping me from getting a license, is the fact that every licensed HAM operator has his/her name/address publicly available. :(

(and no, I am not transmitting on it)


22 posted on 01/15/2022 7:53:02 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: G Larry
It may be a little beyond your capability, but the Samsung Galaxy S10e is an easily rooted phone with many custom ROMs available. You can take complete control of this phone. Whether it is a good idea for you... is all about you. If you are like my parents who are in their 80s and can only answer the phone about half the time... you should probably not be messing with it and just take the update. If you want to root the phone, you also should not take the update.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/the-proper-way-to-root-your-s10-10-10e-device-and-get-it-right-tipps-tricks.4015813/

23 posted on 01/15/2022 7:54:28 AM PST by fireman15
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To: G Larry

If you have a google account, go in and disable or pause all of their BS including tracking, location, ad preferences etc.

On you’re phone uninstall chrome and just about everything you can that you don’t use or want and/or force stop/disable everything google related.

Doesn’t solve everything but helps a lot.


24 posted on 01/15/2022 7:54:29 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: maddog55

.. and I leave my cell home 99% of the time.


25 posted on 01/15/2022 7:55:07 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: lewislynn

Actually an answering machine is built into my land line phone. I also had a stand alone answering machines in the late 80s (that one used tape), another in the 90’s and Noughties.

They suffice.

Someday soon after 5G rolls out and they can finally tell, at least when combined with surveillance cameras, I expect there will be an app to alert people to folks not carrying phones and not using apps related to Covid etc.


26 posted on 01/15/2022 7:56:25 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Disambiguator

“Solution: flip phone.”

I wish that were possible. I’d go back to my old Motorola in a heartbeat if I could. I think this month all 3G phones are dead in the water. Hubby has a new flip phone, but it’s Android based; I think all newer flip phones are Android or iPhone based.

Going to try to order a BB Classic (4G) for T-Mobile, as some are available online.


27 posted on 01/15/2022 7:57:07 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: ALASKA

Considering the selfie craze shouldn’t we call them Ham Phones?


28 posted on 01/15/2022 7:57:33 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Disambiguator

After the big freeze last year when cell service crashed, they upgraded the towers and killed our flip phone.


29 posted on 01/15/2022 7:57:42 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: G Larry

People actually believe the Duck keeps searches private? That’s funny.


30 posted on 01/15/2022 7:59:29 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Jonty30

I’m not a techie when it comes to cellular. These phones ... what providers will they work with? I didn’t see that in the article.


31 posted on 01/15/2022 8:00:21 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: SuzyQue

I use brave browser and it works well


32 posted on 01/15/2022 8:01:28 AM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Ping


33 posted on 01/15/2022 8:01:59 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: G Larry

Do you have other browsers installed?

I have an S10E and if I click a link in an email to take me to the web it gives me a choice to use Samsung Internet, Chrome, or Opera. Below the choices you can click “Just once” or “Always”.


34 posted on 01/15/2022 8:02:44 AM PST by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: G Larry

Can experts tell me why fb will not come up normally in my brave browser now on samsung s10? New change.

Instead a truncated version comes up. And it wants me to download a fb app. No way!


35 posted on 01/15/2022 8:03:56 AM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

Yes, I use Brave sometimes too.


36 posted on 01/15/2022 8:04:54 AM PST by SuzyQue
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To: Jonty30
You can get a cheap flip phone for under $100.

Linky?

37 posted on 01/15/2022 8:06:49 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Rurudyne

Some of us don’t even carry those. Being unreachable except by land line is very nice

I’m glad it works for you, it doesn’t work in my life worth a d***. I haven’t had a land line in 20 years. I want to be able to get and answer emails and use the net when away from home. Being able to do so can involve thousands of dollars.


38 posted on 01/15/2022 8:07:53 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (If It Aint Woke Don't Fix It.)
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To: 2111USMC

Yea that’s a good one. Email to bing here.


39 posted on 01/15/2022 8:09:15 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: G Larry

Go to Settings then Apps. Click on Chrome. Look at Browser app and see if it has been changed to default.


40 posted on 01/15/2022 8:09:36 AM PST by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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