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Here's some criticism from The Australia Institute back in November last year.

And yet, if you look them up you'll find many of them have tens of millions of downloads. It's crazy the types of random shit people thoughtlessly download from the Play Store. The North Korean spy agency also had spyware apps on there until recently, targeting South Korean users.

SAPOL introduced something similar last year, specifically to target people who use their phones while driving. They issued 64,454 letters in the first three months lol

Most people a) have a Google and/or Microsoft account b) use Google or Bing to search the web and c) don't clear their cookies at the end of a session. So by default, most would be signed into their search engine (though perhaps without even knowing).

Some search engines like Kagi also require their users to login (because it is a paid service).

I'm a similar age and it was the same for me when I first deactivated my Facebook account, and still is with Messenger. After a few months of vainly trying to get people to switch to something else (like Signal), I just gave up and started using Messenger again. For me, the self-imposed social isolation was not worth the privacy gains.

Worst phone back ever? That is hideous.

Useful comparison, thanks for sharing!

Why wouldn't people subscribed to a Nintendo community downvote a commenter saying "I wish NIntendo disappeared"?

It is, yes. After certain system updates these apps can sometimes be reinstalled/reactivated without the user's knowledge. Samsung is notorious for this.

Privacy isn't necessarily about risk for everyone. For some it's more about their individual right to privacy, and to uphold that right they need to be aware of ways in which it may be breached. So this is probably not practical information for most people (I certainly don't care) but it's useful to share nonetheless.

This is specifically about Gmail, Android has had this feature for a long time (though I'm not sure if it was before iOS).

Very cute setup!