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I am being forced into installing Life360 on my phone, which as you all probably know, is a massive privacy violation. Just by looking through the AppStore data page, lots of sensitive information gets shared with third parties. There’s got to be a way to disable it, and only enable it when necessary right? Or am I out of options here? Even though it’s only slightly less of a privacy risk, I’d prefer using Apple’s find my service, which has most of the features that Life360 has, while also being built in to every iOS device. How do I reason with this person?

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Look, I get I'm being a bit of an asshole with this answer, but given what little you've provided it's the only one I can think of: get a phone (a google pixel) that can install an operating system that actually cares about your privacy (grapheneos). Then use its sandboxing to protect you from privacy invasion generally, and Life360 specifically.

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Ehhh, graphene may not be the best rec anymore given Google isn't publishing AOSP source anymore and we don't know if we can force them to through court. postmarketOS seems good, probably, but I've never tried it myself. Calling any other opinions!

[-] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

The team has already stated existing pixels will remain supported. The Pixel 8 for example still has support until around 2030. Its still viable to recommend them.

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