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The mail (a web service), the calendar (a web service), YouTube (web videos), YouTube Music (web music), Google Maps (a web based mapping service)...
You get the picture.
Android spies on you when you're doing things locally on the device. But, the rest of these are web-based services.
Don't forget ChromeOS!
Google spies through its OS too.
I'd make that plural. Google spies through its OSs too.
Other people have already mentioned this, but Google absolutely spies on the whole OS when it makes the OS, either Android or Chrome OS, Google Play Services are spyware and also required for full Android functionality
And Apple aren't that much better. They make a lot of privacy claims, but are still pushing hard for their online services like iCloud, and their hardware is designed to hide what it's doing from the user. Apple is still collecting user data. They might be sharing less with third parties, but they are still collecting it.
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Meta Is Recruiting Former Pentagon Officials As It Ramps Up Military Ambitions
Reading that headline is crazy, why would Meta have any military ambitions. And then in the first sentence of the text they mention AI. I guess they need to use AI for any possible application to show that they get value from their large investments.
Why? Governmemt contracts of course. Sweet sweet borrowed money the feds shovel to their donor pals, then just kickback.
Ai stuff is dark, real dystopian shit they are working on, israel did a bunch of it, kill decisions, killbots too, but analyzing associations and threat detection amd whatever else nazis had them program it to do in their reprisals against the ghetto.
But they are putting these systems on all data, to make half baked threat assessments, dystopia past regimes could not dream of.
Next month, Microsoft forced Mojang to comply with the UK government Online Safety Act. All users must upload Digital ID or some other form of Age Verification to a third party company called Yoti. Or else they won't get to use the chat, friends list, and other social features. All users are affected for now it seems. Yoti claim they will delete the data right away and not store it. This means that even in single player we can't use commands and see achievements and stuff like that. Really annoying. EDIT: Turns out this is on both Java and Bedrock and probably all platforms such as mobile! Not sure how or when it will happen though.
I will literally never verify my real life ID for some online service. I will cut out that service from my life before betraying my own privacy to such a degree. I will throw my computer out the window before ever doing this.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
I was happier before I had computers and internet and cellphones too. Everyone used to go about their day with no phones. The only problem is a lot of things have to be done online. Ie, no classified ads anymore, if you need say used tools.
on a totally unrelated note, been playing a lot of voxelibre in luanti lately
I would have assumed this would apply to Bedrock and not Java since Bedrock is the one which uses Xbox live, whereas Java can be run completely offline.
What would happen if I ran Minecraft Java on my Linux computer with my internet disconnected?
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Abaurd laws aside, why is a third party involved? In my country we have a digital ID card with an open source governmental app that tells you exactly what data is given out to a service. Which in this example would only be "over 18 years yes/no"
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Surely this affects only some very new version rarely anyone plays, and not the good versions all the modpacks are built upon?
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Google with Android: Amateurs!
the closest thing Linux has to spying is the strictly opt-in Debian package popularity contest lol
...or installing Red Star OS. There are Linux distros with built-in spying, they just aren't very popular.
woah speak for yourself bucko, i hear practically every computer in North Korea uses that
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Only Apple users think Apple isn't spying on them.
And Apple users are about to realize with the new Apple AI aka Google Gemini that they ARE spying on them.
Everyone who believes their big tech software doesnt spy as much as possible are naive fools
But its almost impossible to avoid anyway
So i can understand that a lot of people just dont care
Myself included, though i do use linux, its not for privacy reasons. I just like linux better thqn windows.
Work requires a mac, and github by microsoft. What you want me to do?
No they won't. Apple users are either tech illiterate or sycophantic. They won't realize that the "year in review" is actually just a showcase of how much info they have on you.
Used to know an apple fan in college, he almost screamed at me for buying a wired mouse with a good sensor rather than a wireless one with a bad one, because according to Apple, I would benefit more from the latter, and otherwise I'm setting back "wireless mains power tech", which I showed a disinterest in by buying the wired mouse. He also called me a child when I bought a graphics card.
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Google doesn't spy only the web. There are some pretty common and completely legal devices, that Google takes advantage of to spy in people's everyday life. Those devices are called Android phones.
Google spies through androidOS
Time for our sponsor for today's episode, GrapheneOS. I don't need tell you what it does because y'all on Lemmy anyways. Honestly it was the most simple setup, you plug your phone into the computer you don't need to download the software installer locally, its all distributed on their website and it take 2 clicks of the mouse to get a privacy focused OS.
If you have a pixel at least
giving your browser, an environment which is meant to run untrusted code, direct control over your pcs hardware, especially to modify the firmware of your phone, sounds like asking for a lot of trouble.
@lunarequest goes into great detail, why we as society should avoid using WebUSB, especially the pivacy concerned individuals among us. See: https://nullrequest.com/posts/Thecaseagainstwebusb
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Awh crap
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