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Seems like banning all advertising would end all this stupidity. Seems like Google Android is following iOS's lead...

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus. They keep adding more that default to "on," and bury the settings deeper each time. It's absurd.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I literally got a notification that took me to this menu. They aren't trying to hide it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't. I only found out about it through this post.

I also had to dig down two menus deep past the config search results. Looks pretty hidden to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I didn't either. Found it four pages deep. under "other privacy settings", nonchalantly placed at the bottom of the last page. And i just did a search for that kind of thing two weeks ago and somehow missed it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Degoogle your phone

Problem solved

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The world deserve gnu/linux mobile even faster.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

How our future will look. I know most people will go about they're lives ignorant to this bs but by agreeing to this shit your inadvertently fucking us all. I hope more people look to custom ROMs and disagree to marketing bs and generally living with more awareness of the actions they take and how it'll effect our future

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the same thing as in chrome

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yet another reason not to use Chrome

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is all avoided if you just use GrapheneOS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the screenshot! I had no idea this had been stuck in there. Thankfully it was sent to off for whatever reason.