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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.nobody.at!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:33:27 +0100 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <80c93cc2ac209e7015ef716663a6761e@dizum.com> <485a6182afb819f8920f7b4ceb7f0469297262df@i2pn2.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net +GCkORW1sbO8cqRDc3i3nA6XWmcYWH7wRGh+xAZc/dUFiGRtoe X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:2J+vRNuzAPYqbAOxGaWF+htYszg= sha256:pa23UBIBs7A8l4W4lXA79iuWh0kFcG5LfeQ7olbNQdA= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3051 On 2025-03-17 17:05, micky wrote: > In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:01:16 +0100, "Carlos > E.R." wrote: > >> On 2025-03-16 16:10, micky wrote: >>> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:47:34 -0000 (UTC), >>> Retro Guy wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:22:25 +0100 (CET), anon wrote: >>>> >>>>> https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/google_android/ >>>> >>>> I'm pretty sure they all do this (Apple, Google, someotherguy). >>>> >>>> I never expect ANY privacy on my phone, so never use is for things that >>>> require privacy. I assume that Google knows every keystroke I make. Then, >>>> on my only other device using Google (one browser on my desktop), I am >>>> careful what I do in that browser. >>>> >>>> This is one reason I've never trusted encrypted comm apps at all. Since my >>>> phone can see what I type and read, so can Google. They can see it when >>>> it's not encrypted yet, or already decrypted. >>> >>> Definitely google can. That's how it's able to make suggestions on how >>> to finish what you were typing. If it didn't know what you'd written, >>> the suggestions woudln't make sense. >> >> It depends on your keyboard choice, and it is clearly stated when you >> select it. > > Maybe in Spain it's clearly stated, or maybe if you actually select it > and don't just use the default that comes installed, or maybe both. At > any rate, I don't think I ever saw it stated that what I type could be > read by someone else. Or even an implication that another keyboard > would not allow this. The normal keyboard is silent. But some of the variants you can enable have a text that say that google reads what you type. For instance, the dictation "keyboard". And they warn you about it in the context of typing passwords. -- Cheers, Carlos.