Still using a 4a too but occasional powerbutton bugs are making me considering an upgrade. Free Google photos are making me keep the 4a… still not sure between 7a and 8…
It was a good phone before google decided to become a digital rights management overlord. Every other action on my phone now has some stupid tracking popup to sign in to something, save something, translate something. GTFOff my screen holy shit.
My phone’s hardware is still all good but I’ve been forced to look for a new one. Fuck you google
That sounds like the apps you use, my Pixel asks for authorisation for each app to access something the first time and that’s it. Never been asked to translate anything or had tracking pop-ups except on websites.
Half the features on the phone integrate with Chrome, why guy a google phone to uninstall everything google about it? The goal was specifically to have it all in one place, accounts/NFC/ SSO. I’ll buy a phone where I don’t have to reinstall all the software, makes much more sense.
Y’all are picking at every word. It’s also gmail links.
The wallet. The lens The hotspot The nearby share Asking me to save every password/login/id to the accounts on the phone. Messing up which account on the phone does what.
And yes, as you all have so brilliantly pointed out I can use another OS, and another browser, and another share app/drive.
It almost sounds like I should just ditch the phone with that brand if I’m going to go through all this trouble avoiding it natively
What are you going to replace it with then? Avoiding vendor lock-in on an iPhone isn’t nearly as easy, and every Android smartphone is the same regarding the behavior of Google services.
The goal was specifically to have it all in one place, accounts/NFC/ SSO.
Firefox supports syncing account login info between mobile and desktop. The desktop version can also import passwords you’ve saved in Chrome, and they’ll sync to the mobile version.
True, but I feel like the market for Google’s VPN is people who would NOT otherwise bother to use a VPN at all. They’ll only bother to use this because it’s free and pushed right into their face.
Vastly reduces MITM attacks, and makes your traffic mostly invisible to the internet provider, be it a public WiFi, or a private network at a friend's house.
It should, given that Google can essentially see everything you are browsing via the Web. I’m sure to some degree they get plenty of data from most us, however using their VPN would likely give them ALL of your traffic. That’s my assumption at least.
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