Re: Location Accuracy

On 10/26/2024 1:34 AM, Andrews wrote:

 What Google gathers from 9,999 out of 10,000 Android phones is every single
unique BSSID & unique GPS location of every Wi-Fi router that phone sees.
 Mine is the only one out of those 10,000 phones which doesn't allow that.
 

    How does that work? I looked at the articles you linked. I seem
to also remember that there was an ISP in the news using routers
as public access points without asking. But I don't understand the
technical details here. The BSSID is coming from the router? Can
it be changed? We have all Windows computer, all attached directly
to ethernet. But the wifi is on for cellphone use.

Apple inserts your userid into every app you download which, let's fact it,
no other company stoops that low to track every user's use of every IPA!
 

    Well, as I recall Adobe was putting codes into Photoshop files
to track down people using PS illegally. And MS Word puts personal
data into DOC files without asking. Didn't Apple also tag music files
purchased, back when that was a thing?
    The trouble is that spying and service can get conflated. Especially
with Apple. The Apple disciples generally consider it a wonderful service
for Apple to copy their entire cellphone to their "cloud". Spying or free
backup? Depends on who you ask.

Take a guess which is the 1 out of 10,000 Android phones which does not
have a Google account set up (and I can do anything anyone else can do).
 

   I never set up a Google account on my Tracfone, though I barely
use it, anyway. I keep it in the glove compartment, turned off, in
case I need to make a call away from home. The whole cellphone
lifestyle is too sleazy for my taste. Surveillance is built in.... And
I also don't want people to be able to text me at any time, no
matter where I am. I wouldn't even know how to write a text. If
it's important they can leave a message on my home phone.
    The woman I live
with had an account and gmail set up when she bought the phone.
Once again, service or spying? For the average person a Google
account is how they get all that free stuff and apps.