Posted on 05/15/2019 5:18:31 AM PDT by vannrox
In an attempt to de-Google my life, I recently disabled Play Services. Now, my Pixel 2 XL complains every time it can't "phone home."
Google wants to contact Play Services (itself a rootkit) every time you receive a call. You'll see the notification/complaint several seconds before the phone rings.
While driving with Maps, Google attempts to track you each time you enter a destination or cancel one as well as at regular intervals during your drive.
Play Services also tries to track me at random times for no reason when I'm not using the phone.
It tries to track you while listening to voicemail and the notification/complaint stops the voicemail playback every few seconds when it can't.
But perhaps the worst offense is that it tracks you as you scroll through your contacts. God help if you look up a phone number because, every few seconds as you scroll through your contact list, Play Services attempts to report it to Google.
I find this behavior reprehensible and I'm sorely looking forward to getting a Puri.sm or /e/ device.
Just for fun, try it for yourself by disabling the Play Services app and see how often Google is spying on you.
Don’t. Use . Google.
I’ve had google play disabled for the better part of 3 years, and I don’t have those issues.
Don’t have that app
“While driving with Maps, Google attempts to track you each time you enter a destination or cancel one as well as at regular intervals during your drive.”
Isn’t that how driving with maps works?
How wan it place you accurately on a map if it doesn’t know where you are?
I have a newer phone. The Google Play “disable” button is dimmed out and not functional. Can’t turn it off.
Same here.
It's just court ordered surveillance. ;-)
All Android phones use Google as they own it.
95% of server farms belong to Google.
This message was processed thru Google server farms.
does onstar really track your vehicle? Or can it just find your vehicle at a certain moment?
Google saves your position/time data on THEIR servers. Quite different from using say Garmin GPS, where the only device that knows where it is, is the device in your hand.
If you use Google Maps, check your “timeline.” Same on your phone as if you check it on a computer from the library. Your data is at goog.
We don’t need no steenkin’ court orders. We aren’t the government, and you have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Find somebody who knows, or learn for yourself, how to use adb.
Please quit your abuse of the news forum with chat material.
For me tracking is a minor complaint,power it down, they do not call if you win the lotto, and you need to purchase a ticket.
All the crapware, just counted 54 icons, I use at most a dozen, ever.
Force stop and they return after a reset/power-down.
I want it simple!
A humongous snapping turtle, steps in front of my bicycle.
I want a picture. Bright sunlight, hard to see the screen, where is the camera icon???
This happened, by the time I find it, Mr turtle is gone.
About once a month, I promise to root it, but do not want to brick it.
I hate useless crapware hogging my screen.
You can set it up any way you like on an android device. All the other icons can be hidden.
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