Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:56:06 +0100 Lines: 26 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 A8ycVpshz6G1uLVO1tZYzgcjtUAI68NjB5ReDkXcAMSc6dyRrq X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:QzYJQKf+T+D+3l18Tx66lTdaL6k= sha256:1baoQh+1E3TVUf2iuSzsxrc8ro4/x3WKVJO913o5Fso= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2187 On 2025-03-16 20:06, Jeff Layman wrote: > You can have a /greater/ degree of privacy by following your > instructions noted in the previous thread in relation to a Google > account and the DSID cookie. But "privacy" isn't a term to be assumed > where Android is concerned. There's an interesting article at www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/03/13/googles-android-decision-bad- > news-for-all-samsung-pixel-users/>. (*** see below) .... > (*** NB - scrolling down the article webpage results in a message: > "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the > browser console for more information)". The browser page is then lost. I > got round this by turning off my Wi-Fi immediately the page had loaded. > The whole page could then be read by scrolling down) Confirm (firefox on Linux) You can bypass that by loading the page, and then on UBlock I click "disable javascript". I can then page down to the end. -- Cheers, Carlos.