Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway

[fishos@lemmy.world]

You know the towers log data too, right? And that websites themselves can track you regardless of what OS you use, right?

Privacy is good, but stop with this "Linux is a magic weapon" BS.

[brumefey@sh.itjust.works]

That’s crazy. As it’s (almost) impossible to prevent those data to be sent from the phone, would it be possible to make the data useless ? For instance by sending loads of fake json payloads for some ids ? Then enjoy my data which says at the same time that I’m in Vancouver, Lisbon, Paris, on my low cost and super expensive phone, with volume at max and zero,…
Not possible I guess ?

[futatorius@lemm.ee]

Multiple middlemen are better than just one. Also, you can test its effectiveness.

[nalivai@lemmy.world]

It's in a perpetual state of leakage in a sence that it's a trade item that gets sold between different companies. You can't leak that, really.

[morys@lemmy.ml]

Separate dongle for internet using a hotspot can help. No system is perfect but Linux phone is an excellent first step

[fishos@lemmy.world]

You miss my meaning. All the servers that your info passes through, all the cell towers, etc, can and in many cases do track you(even as just routine loggings). Thinking that running anything makes you more secure while connecting to a giant public network is naive.

[quokka1@mastodon.au]

@hendrik @muntedcrocodile then don't use that app. Done.

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

Just comes with the downside that I can't take part in every day life, talk to my friends, stay connected with old friends, borrow an electric bicycle, transfer money easily... I have to drive to a shop only to see it's closed and they posted that on Instagram...

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I wouldnt be surprised if Google hardcoded DNS servers even if you override it with a "private dns"

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

I think it's unlikely that they mess with people's DNS settings. That would just break lots of use-cases. But there are things like certificate pinning and probably similar things for DNS. We nowadays often cirtumvent DNS servers and use DOH on an application level. Plus there are things like connectivity checks (made for public wifi portals etc), AGPS... that all connect to Google servers... Well, unless you have that changed, as I said. But that's not something the user can change. You need the whole operating system re-build with different servers in place.