Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Andrew <andys@nospam.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Annoying news and ads from Google app
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 23:06:56 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com)
Message-ID: <vj7t6f$2pmh$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
References: <MPG.41bf583b2287d8e0990398@news.individual.net> <MPG.41bf5c9eb2a88545990399@news.individual.net> <lrm5m9F81k1U1@mid.individual.net> <vjfh2lx995.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <vj5cld$fe3$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <1h9j2lxu4o.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <lrodm5FjfjdU1@mid.individual.net> <vj72i5$f8q6$1@dont-email.me> <lroi32Fk5m9U1@mid.individual.net> <vj794q$gffj$1@dont-email.me> <vj7qi8$eev$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <lrpa2hFns0sU1@mid.individual.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 23:06:56 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com;
	logging-data="91857"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blueworldhosting.com"
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.13
Cancel-Lock: sha1:sQkEejfzcXmB5QVtzgN9+zwBU1I= sha256:/gV7GbWNcjqGxqZYHpF458XN6oKd5ZJL+l2vkhvNbb4=
	sha1:nlzH8IJMvXADtjsY8SYsTCvfBBo= sha256:rkbx9CiF78ff491g9JPnNo4FROJk9wS1N0uavdNuIDI=
Bytes: 3003
Lines: 28

Andy Burns wrote on Mon, 9 Dec 2024 22:42:25 +0000 :

>> On that topic alone of Google monitoring your reading to figure out what 
>> it is that you like to read and then presenting you with similar 
>> offerings....
> I told my launcher pane to not use my google account, and refused all 
> cookies, that way it game me more news stories, from more sources (not 
> just .uk) including cat vids and stuff ...

I do the same (conceptually) when, on a PC, I use a privacy-based web
browser to read the Google News web page which collates articles for me.
 <https://news.google.com/home?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en>

Since it asks me every time to accept or reject cookies, I reject them.
Then it gives me whatever it thinks is a generic page for people in the US.

For World News, I have a similar bookmark which serves news alphabetically.
 <https://www.google.com/search?q=world+news+today>

Interestingly, the good stuff (such as BBC & CNN) show up early (due to the
accident of alphabetics); but then the utterly fantastically atrocious
garbage is soon listed thereafter (e.g., Al Jazeera & Hindustan Times).

Obviously I pick some (e.g., the BBC) yet I ignore others (Al Jazeera).

With those two pages alone, I pick through today's news WITHOUT anyone
correlating my reading choices so as to "Discover" what it is I like.

Everything you do, every second of the day, is one of planned privacy.