Get a Linux phone and keep Google from spying on you. The amount of tracking these phones do is quite extraordinary.
I have a flip-phone ... that’s it. Just talking when needed. No pictures, no texting, just use it to talk. When necessary.
Google wants to cut out the competition. They think only they should be able to spy on you. All this is not going to prevent Google from spying and selling it to others.
I planned to take a good long look at Elon Musk’s phone but what do I know, I liked my Windows Phone and Zune.
Because Google’s Play Integrity API is changing, and for the 750-million-plus users on Android 12 or older, you may need to go buy a new phone if you can’t run a newer OS to keep your apps functioning as now
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Other great features are new and improved user tracking, data harvesting, and ad deliver.
I don’t trust anything from Forbes. More likely this is an attempt to ban jailbreaking your phone.
Planned obsolescence. FU Google.
ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS WHY I HAVE NEVER HAD A CELL PHONE
FORCED TO SPEND $$$ OVER & OVER AGAIN.
MY $20 land line phones work just fine
“Removing looser restrictions?”They need to add tighter restrictions. Removing restrictions means less restrictive environment. Or bad writing. Writing is not what it used to be. I wonder if AI is going to put hyphens in between numbers and words.
Guess I will revert to my old flip phone, I can’t use Apple products
I don’t download apps on my android phone , I pay $100 a year and I never use any minutes , I carry the phone for emergencies . I also have a iPhone 8 and the first SE and they still work ,LOL
What really piques my interest, however, is the Tesla phone. I don’t know when it’s coming out, but it’s supposed to be high-end and give Apple and Android a run for their money. Speaking of money, it’s claimed by Musk and co. to purportedly cost $375. Starlink ready, too.
It’s worth taking a look at when it comes out. Videos on YouTube about it.
These types of activities I save for my Ethernet-wired PC at home which has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi disabled. Nothing is perfectly safe in the computer world, but performing sensitive activities over the airwaves is just increasing the risk.
Zzzzzzzzz!
Hmmm .... Side bar convo: My Samsung android has done a few system updates in the last 2 months.
Now, I cannot use my camera unless the microphone and “nearby devices/bluetooth” is given permission in the camera app to run when I take a picture of my dog.
Some other changes that are annoying but the camera thing really torqued me.
I put blue tape over all the camera lenses and turned off the permissions. My dog isn’t that photogenic.
you will not need a new phone.
I treat my android phone like it is the most unsecure computing device I have (it probably is)
I do not have a google account so I have very few apps (only the ones I sideloaded from .apk files)
I do not access anything to do with money on my phone
Mostly I use it for phone calls and texts.
I would be afraid to see what kind of dangerous stuff is on most peoples phones
Got my S25 Ultra 3 days ago.
So much info in YouTube videos, already.
I’m about a millimeter away from ditching Android and getting a [free] 2 revision-old Apple phone with a switch to Pure Talk.
If everybody is spied on the spying becomes a tad moot. Dear God, most of the population begs to be on TV. They don’t just want to be spied on, they want as many people as possible to know as much as possible about them...until it involves the deeper secrets.
Just get an iPhone and use App Store apps only for productivity and entertainment - nothing political. Assume that - just like Google - Apple Intelligence is making a copy of everything you type or say to give to the government of any country where you are located and proceed accordingly.