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Android 15 is on the way. And it's pretty bad (youtu.be)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sorry for a kinda clickbait title but it is what it is. I just watched a video about Android 15 changes and a lot of them are either not important or straight up bad.

I want to specifically mention increased background sensor usage (such as microphone) and the Find My Device network. These are serious privacy issues that just make lives of custom ROM developers and users harder by having to disable more and more stuff (that's turned on by default of course), as well as a contribution to ewaste generation and general decrease of battery life.

I guess we are getting into the era of complete death of digital privacy and absolute surveillance. This is scary but not too unrealistic I guess. I just hope the devs of privacy-focused ROMs will be able to do something about it and purge these changes.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Reading up on the blog posts and technical overviews for the new Find My Device network all of it seems well anonimized and local device to device coms not using GPS, and can be declined if needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it's just Google's entry for the Apple air tag. I'll have to read a bit more about it before I decide to turn it on, but from the outset it seems alright.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean, it's still Google, but honestly I've been looking forward for this feature despite being very privacy conscious. I really want to use trackers on my bike, suitcase, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Same I've been reading up on it and still skeptical but going to get a few tags here in a few months.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

A reasonable cost-benefit analysis? On my Lemmy?