Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?= Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Google's "Find My Debvice Network" Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 18:59:03 +0200 Organization: Camembert Normand au Lait Cru Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <2fle5jh0ohlhpkj2728g030k2bqg5fs3fi@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 18:59:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d0f34cd09d1ec49491001fc78a88e79f"; logging-data="1299048"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+2Vy0dLsd1mfIL7pX7TNU0NOd+cJgbnUc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/115.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:s8UWWA5JQMkxMIf9PmuaEeSiJ3U= Content-Language: de-CH In-Reply-To: <2fle5jh0ohlhpkj2728g030k2bqg5fs3fi@4ax.com> Bytes: 2092 Am 29.05.24 um 18:23 schrieb Robert Roland: > On Wed, 29 May 2024 07:54:12 -0700, Stan Brown > wrote: > >> I'm surprised I haven't seen anything about this here. I've been >> googling (!) for a way to opt out of using my bandwidth and my >> battery to be part of this network. > > In a system like this, the number of participating devices is > critically important, so I doubt you will be allowed to turn it off. The privacy implications are much more important than the number of participating devices. I question your assumptions. If you speak a little bit of German than you can see how easy it is to turn it on and to turn it off again: https://www.heise.de/tipps-tricks/Google-Find-my-Device-so-funktioniert-s-6202798.html or open settings. Go to search function and enter "find my" and enter. There you are! Deactivate it! -- "Gutta cavat lapidem." (Ovid)