you might not have known this, but google - the company you use for searching, email, maps, translation, data storage, watching videos, voice assistant tech, backing up your phone, storing photos, finding images, making purchases, making your phone's operating system, advertising, providing webfonts, running website analytics, providing captcha authentication, and browsing the internet - might be tracking you
@Christian
nah it's a feature
@lynnesbian
@danishcookies @lynnesbian
Having breakfast at 150+ MPH is *always* a feature
@lynnesbian That's exacly why GDPR fines are a complete joke…
@lynnesbian Let's install brave browser https://brave.com/aav865
@avndp @lynnesbian Go with another company's product whose revenue primarily comes from advertising to show Google whose boss. 😎😎😎
@lynnesbian I'm absolutely flabbergasted!
@lynnesbian no, wait, WHAT ? 🙀
Are you telling me it's possible my google toilet, toothbrush, car and replacement soul could be collecting data on me???
I used many of #Google services, but I'm in the way to replace them one by one... #GAFAM #Privacy
@lynnesbian
searching❌
email❌
maps❌
translation⭕
data storage❌
watching videos⭕
voice assistant tech❌
backing up your phone❌
storing photos❌
finding images❌
making purchases❌
making your phone's operating system⭕
advertising❌
providing webfonts❌
running website analytics❌
providing captcha authentication❌ browsing the internet❌
@nizarus @lynnesbian DeepL is a good German-based Google Translate alternative for European languages
@kiron
Bookmarked. Thank you for sharing.
@lynnesbian
@nizarus @lynnesbian What do you use for storing photos? :3
@lynnesbian Might? Optimist. They're definitely tracking me.
@lynnesbian
Yes. Contrary to popular fears about various governments, the bigger risks arise from corporate entities trading and collating data to advance their profit motives. Ultimately the endgame of corporate oligarchs is to ensure social and economic control.
@lynnesbian my stepdad is super paranoid about computers but he /had/ to have the newest Samsung phone when it came out. Yet he won't give us his SSN for the FAFSA?
@lynnesbian ...you also use for your phone plan (https://fi.google.com), WiFi setup at home (https://store.google.com/us/product/google_wifi), and registering your domains (https://domains.google)... ugg
@andreas @lynnesbian God. I'm staying in a home where the techbro roommate insists on using Google WiFi. :///
@andreas @lynnesbian He might be more just the Gamer™ roommate the more I think about it.
@slightlyflightyone @lynnesbian you could "accidentally" "drop it" lol
@andreas @lynnesbian I'm p sure they keep it in their bedroom. :/
@andreas @lynnesbian They're kinda obnoxiously entitled and controlling.
@slightlyflightyone @andreas @lynnesbian Are... are you living with a cop?
@awmwrites @andreas @lynnesbian no. Just a neolib
@awmwrites @andreas @lynnesbian Sorry. A "socialist". He hates communism and seems to just want better welfare solutions in capitalism, though. He also seems to seriously underestimate the effects of systemic oppression.
@slightlyflightyone @andreas @lynnesbian That sounds super frustrating and uncomfortable.
@slightlyflightyone @lynnesbian that sucks..in that case, i'd treat your home WiFi like a hostile network since you don't have shared control, and use a VPN
@andreas @lynnesbian It's not my home. I treat all networks as hostile. 👀
@slightlyflightyone @lynnesbian nice, same ✊🏼
@lynnesbian in regards to Google Home (https://store.google.com/us/product/google_home), my wife's nephew-in-law knows only a few words so far, and of course one of them is "Google" since he's growing up with the "Home" 😵
this might come as a shock, but google, a company whose primary revenue source is advertising, might be collecting your data