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Batman

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#2654405 11-Feb-2021 08:44

afe66: Always mystified me why Facebook thinks we care about their inability to track us.

I think the elephant in the room is Google. They are secretly worse and nobody is making as much noise. Maybe that's why?

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#2654407 11-Feb-2021 08:51

Batman: On an android you can choose not to install FB.

But how do you stop Google from tracking you on an Android... Someone please advice

I'm pretty sure some phones won't let you remove Facebook, maybe Samsung?

As for Google not tracking you on an Android phone, good luck with that.

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#2654417 11-Feb-2021 09:16

But how do you stop Google from tracking you on an Android... Someone please advice

I doubt that will ever happen such is the google control of android

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#2654420 11-Feb-2021 09:18

Batman: On an android you can choose not to install FB.

But how do you stop Google from tracking you on an Android... Someone please advice

Even if you don't install the FB app, other apps are tracking you and sending the data to FB. On Android, you don't know which apps these are, nor can you opt out.

You can't stop Google from tracking you on Android - Google are hard-baked into the Android OS. It's for this reason I moved to iPhone.

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#2654423 11-Feb-2021 09:23

dafman: You can't stop Google from tracking you on Android - Google are hard-baked into the Android OS.

You would have to move to a custom ROM such as LineageOS (https://lineageos.org/)

Unfortunately using push notifications requires Google services so that's another thing you would have to forgo.

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#2654599 11-Feb-2021 12:57

Batman:
afe66: Always mystified me why Facebook thinks we care about their inability to track us.

I think the elephant in the room is Google. They are secretly worse and nobody is making as much noise. Maybe that's why?

For me, its that I know google is tracking me and I choose to buy an android phone.

Just like all apple users know apple is tracking them too.

I quite strongly object to facebook tracking me when I dont have a facebook account or any interest if being part of their ecosystem.

Anyone know is/can our governments sign up to be a "partner" for our private data that they would otherwise be restricted from collecting?

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