Re: google apps

On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:04:17 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :

Gmail
Maps
Chrome
Drive
Calendar
Translate
YouTube
Voice
Docs
Authenticator
 The thing is I use pretty much all of them on a consistent basis.

While most people (Android or iOS) never *test* the system, I've tested
both Android & iOS to find that, in some cases, it's *better* (in terms of
privacy) to use the iOS apps below instead of using them on Android.
Gmail, Google Maps & Google Voice.
I didn't test most of the others - but those three apps, if you log into
them on Android, automatically *create* an account on the Android device.
Not so with iOS.
Of course, there is no privacy on iOS anyway because almost everyone has an
account (for Apple) on their iOS devices - but the point I'm making here is
if you do NOT have a Google Account on your Android device (for privacy),
and yet, you *log into* any of those three apps, Google will *create* that
account - whether or not you want it (with default permissions).
Those default permissions are a bitch because the default is to suck up all
your contacts for Gmail for example, which you can only turn off *after*
Google has already sucked them up (during the account-creation process).
At least with my iOS devices, I can use the iOS GMail, Maps & Google Voice
apps *without* creating a Google Account on the Apple iOS device.
That means there's more privacy on iOS when you use those particular apps.
Bear in mind the Apple trolls know none of this because they are too afraid
to ever test anything - as all they do is exactly what Apple tells them to.
I would think the situation is similar for the Mac, is it not?