Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andrew Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Android keyboard: your choice. Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 19:12:48 -0000 (UTC) Organization: BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com) Message-ID: References: <20240617114559.a2970ac2923facc44a2ec355@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 19:12:48 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com; logging-data="92195"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blueworldhosting.com" Cancel-Lock: sha1:lYWqI3/dMwm4FNkDwCJ4nbqiJCg= sha256:TQWho3SossGUCSaTkM2aF8uTKsa5z22HrZIGZdvccsc= sha1:n12kQdRjjO9UH5+C9jwdJzpn9BQ= sha256:L5CLIAQJX8FU3r4culEkvsqAQC/URjpk9XYyeLpF830= X-Newsreader: PiaoHong.Usenet.Client.Free:1.65 Bytes: 3829 Lines: 41 R.Wieser wrote on Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:39:14 +0200 : > Oh yes, there seems to be a difference : the first being the back-end and > second the front-end. At least, if I maye take Googles own word for it : > > https://firebase.google.com/firebase-and-gcp Thank you for noticing that there's a difference between "Google Firebase" and "Google Services Firebase App Indexing", where I read what you quoted and that seems to be the former but not the latter. While I will freely admit to not knowing what either one truly is, I don't think one is just the back end of the other - simply because the whole purpose of "Google Services Firebase App Indexing" is for the app to get its data in the users' search results ON THE PHONE (as far as I can tell), while the whole purpose of "Google Firebase" is for the app to link in access to Google's cloud. As far as I can tell, those are two completely different endeavors. The fact that they're likely completely different things with similar names is why I've said that anyone talking about one without mentioning the other almost certainly doesn't know what either does. The issue at hand, as I see it, is that the "Google Services Firebase App Indexing" saves extremely personal data ON THE PHONE which then Google clearly says they will sample intermittently for statistics. "A note about privacy: The personal content index only exists on the user's device. None of the user's personal content is uploaded to Google servers and it only remains on the device while the app is installed. However, aggregated statistics about apps' usage of App Indexing and other system health information may be uploaded to Google servers." Notice that means it doesn't matter one bit if an application has no Internet access... Because Google does. Anyway, we're far from the topic of the Helium keyboard so I opened a separate thread with your links and mine to help understand it better. *Why do so many people confuse Firebase & Firebase App Indexing?*