• salamandermander@lemmings.world
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        22 days ago

        The Gemini app. I can’t uninstall it from my phone but I have it disabled. Not sure if Google’s other account access and apps on my phone are going to still feed into Gemini.

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          9 hours ago

          Google app and the play services still present on your device, which means it feeds data into gemini in a direct or indirect way. If you need privacy from gemini then you must degoogle. Convenience and privacy won’t fit in one basket.

          Why don’t try lineage os without microg which is way better for privacy and security!

        • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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          21 days ago

          If your phone is unaltered in any way, absolutely nothing you do on it is private, even turned off.

          Sweating over one app when your entire phone is the posterboy for spyware? lol

          edit: “nice downvotes!” ~ Google

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            21 days ago

            Why are you being downvoted for this? In stock devices the user has no way to even start looking at what is being run. All you can do is trust the manufacturer.

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              21 days ago

              Because it’s worth plugging up some privacy holes even if you can’t get all of them. Google already knows my name, address, and phone number, but that’s no reason to let 5th Edition Character Sheet learn it too. They already have gigabytes of personally identifiable data on me, doesn’t mean I’m cool with them bumping that up to terabytes