• Humanius@lemmy.world
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      That hasn’t stopped me from using other Google services like Gmail, Docs, or Drive either.

      If I ever decide I want to opt out of Google’s ecosystem I’ll just serve them a GDPR data deletion request.
      That’s what I did when I deleted my Twitter account as well.

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      If you don’t want to be tracked, you shouldn’t own a smartphone.

      Because let’s face it, you’re never going to be able to stop it unless you get rid of all your tech.

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        Imo it should be a choice whether we are tracked for monetary gains or not, and not a necessary evil. But with most basic services/devices you are not even presented with that choice. E.g. when buying a phone.

        And if you do have a choice, sometimes accessibility is restricted so much that you can’t participate in our networked society.

        I think we have to find ways to provide access to the most basic services with a minimum of tracking. Anything else should still be an option of course.

        How to achieve this? I don’t know. But EU regulations certainly wouldn’t hurt for now.

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        You’re objectively wrong. You can have a fully free and open source android rom without any spyware (not even from google) and be free, and I also use Piped for watching youtube because I don’t have a google account. Check out privacy communities on lemmy.

        Edit: And about getting rid of all tech, of course you can’t be 100% independent and have 100% privacy, but you can mitigate most of it if you know what you’re doing.

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          Many years ago I tried that, and found out that privacy is possible, but the cost is incredibly high.

          By using pi-hole I was able to find out if my mobile phone was communicating with Google. As long as I had GAPPS on LineageOS, there was plenty of traffic. When I removed GAPPS, the traffic went quiet, but my phone became severely crippled.

          Sure, I still had some smart apps on my smartphone, but I was also cut off from my bank, so basically living without money in todays society. Not really a viable option. Also, updating apps from fdroid was incredibly inconvenient, but I hope that issue has been fixed now.