Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

On 2025-03-17 17:05, micky wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:01:16 +0100, "Carlos
E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
 

On 2025-03-16 16:10, micky wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:47:34 -0000 (UTC),
Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.org> wrote:
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:22:25 +0100 (CET), anon wrote:
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/google_android/

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I'm pretty sure they all do this (Apple, Google, someotherguy).
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I never expect ANY privacy on my phone, so never use is for things that
require privacy. I assume that Google knows every keystroke I make. Then,
on my only other device using Google (one browser on my desktop), I am
careful what I do in that browser.
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This is one reason I've never trusted encrypted comm apps at all. Since my
phone can see what I type and read, so can Google. They can see it when
it's not encrypted yet, or already decrypted.

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Definitely google can.  That's how it's able to make suggestions on how
to finish what you were typing.  If it didn't know what you'd written,
the suggestions woudln't make sense.

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It depends on your keyboard choice, and it is clearly stated when you
select it.

 Maybe in Spain it's clearly stated, or maybe if you actually select it
and don't just use the default that comes installed, or maybe both.   At
any rate, I don't think I ever saw it stated that what I type could be
read by someone else.   Or even an implication that another keyboard
would not allow this.

The normal keyboard is silent. But some of the variants you can enable have a text that say that google reads what you type. For instance, the dictation "keyboard". And they warn you about it in the context of typing passwords.
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Cheers, Carlos.