Posted on 04/07/2023 6:55:01 PM PDT by bitt
I could not care less if they track me. I buy nothing from them.
I don’t ( knowingly ) have a Google account. I think I used Google once, to compare search results with Bing.
Later.
Oh noes!! Now I owe Sting for the rest of my life for this small infraction. It is more than I can bear. I’ll become a refugee and come over the border under an alias. get on government hosing/food and live happily ever after.
Quite possible if you know exactly what needs to be yanked. A lot of the telematics crap is in the head unit(least on Mopar)
Doesn’t matter if the antenna is there if it doesn’t know how to phone home.
“They can’t know your location if they can’t get a signal.”
But can you get or make a call?
Can I root it?
I get popup ads on my PC all the time. I just ignore them. I do not let it bother me. I do not have to buy it just because an ad popped in my face.
Of course that is how Google makes money by selling your habits to advertisers. I see ads all over the roads and towns. And I get junk mail galore. All of that is just minor annoyance. I just toss it all in garbage. Why be paranoid because Google is tracking me on use of internet?
Driving cross-country last year.
Got Google maps up on the phone, phone sitting in the center console.
Wife starts singing pieces of a song. Phone says “One moment please”.
Had to explain it to her. She gave me “The Look”.
One would have to be naive not to realize smart phones and internet snoop all the time. Contrary to popular belief, privacy is not a right. You must be born in a cave and be a hermit to earn your privacy, and it won’t be much of a life.
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They could track peaceful people going to the Capital building yet somehow cannot track any of the movements of the democrat party terrorists burning down many parts of cities across the nation nor the FBI agents at the Capital committing the damage. The FBI could use facial recognition as well but somehow do not do so....
Yes, but I don’t murder people.
DDG is compromised, Brave Search is my default on my desktop.
Useful:
https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/
Why You Should DeGoogle & Intro DeGoogling Techniques
https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/huk4rp/why_you_should_degoogle_intro_degoogling/
I am not a fan of Reddit in general, but it does have its uses.
They have some nice ones in-store at Costco right now for a good price.
Agreed, but you can reduce what they get. See my prior post on deGoogling.
People on ebay sell de-googled phones. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=degoogled+phone&_sacat=0
Cream of the crop - https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5-usa/
Librem 5 USA, a premium version of the Librem 5 phone that focuses on security by design and privacy protection by default with a secure supply chain and electronics Made in USA. Outfitted with hardware kill switches and specially designed hardware, you are in control of the flow of information.
They also have cell service now - https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/
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