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YSK that Apple makes millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you should turn it off. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* by vanidian1@lemmy.world to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

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[–] cloudless@piefed.social 66 points 8 months ago (2 children)

YSK: Android has a similar option, but it is not enforced, so individual Android apps can completely ignore this and still track you.

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

And this is part of why I root.

Only certain apps get network access, and only certain apps get to use Google services.

They'll complain, some won't work.

Next phone won't have Google services at all, and untrustworthy apps will be sandboxed in their own profiles.

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[–] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I know it's ironic, but buy a Pixel for your next phone(1) and use GrapheneOS. It sandboxes all of the Google stuff so it can't track you across the device, only within the sandboxed app or service itself. Chances are all of your financial apps will still work (mine did including Paypal, the pickiest by far) and the only downside I experienced was less than ideal keyboard error correction and complicated voice-to-text setup (required a third party voice recog service since Google's didn't exist in GrapheneOS).

(1) Don't buy it new, get one from Swappa or the equivalent trusted used phone marketplace in your country.

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's one of my favorite features of Graphene for sure. You can disable networking entirely, built-in, no root.

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[–] marx@lemmy.cafe 1 point 8 months ago

God we need Ubuntu Touch to take off already. So tired of this corporate bullshit.

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