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What is spying? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by sag@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Sorry to post my shitty neofetch to this community

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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 189 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Google "Only spy the web" is highly inaccurate...they are everywhere. In every website, in your android phone, in your YouTube, in your Google drive, in your email, in your Google maps...

Anyways... I will calm down now. :)

[-] Redredme@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

In your car, your TV, your network, your dns.....

Everywhere.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are even part of paying for the massive underwater cables between continents that all internet traffic runs through.

They took everything over.

It's the most extensive surveillance network in the world.

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[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

It's cute, people think their android os isn't collecting an embarrassing amount of data. Even if you turn everything off but cellular, it still phones home with cellular tower triangulation, app usage, call history, general web activity, weather the phone thinks your walking driving or riding a Bike, device diagnostics, etc.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 1 year ago

Yes but we do what we can.

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[-] lemann@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

in your android phone

And if you try to revoke their spying access on a rooted stock device, they force a reboot ☹️

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

Hence GrapheneOS sandboxing the Play Store. It is ironic that Google is the only phone manufacturer that allows for installing a different OS. But I suppose the fact that GrapheneOS has pushed security updates that have made it into stock Android and the fact that most users won't bother installing an alternative OS on their pixel phones is why they allow such shenanigans.

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[-] NoxiousNikunj@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago

Google spy through android as well

[-] Ebsku@sopuli.xyz 65 points 1 year ago
[-] Annoyed_Crabby@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Mmm, chromeos 🤤

[-] Darkpepito_tux@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I use lineageOS because of this

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 52 points 1 year ago

Both Android and ChromeOS are Linux, and Google's spying there...

[-] Phanatik@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We should all be thankful that ChromeOS is flaming hot garbage that no one should be using on UX alone.

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[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

Stalking. Spying sounds like a kids game or movie. This isn't observing. This isn't passive. It is actively exploiting. It is predatory, targeted, manipulative, with intent. It is stalking.

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[-] yoz@aussie.zone 44 points 1 year ago

Apple fanboys will lose their shit if they see this meme. I sometimes dont understand these fanboys like apple doesn't pay them nor does they credit these idiots for word of mouth free marketing instead these idiots pay top $ to buy their product and act like them invented it. Stupid mofos!!

[-] nogrub@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

yeah i will never understand company fanboys they cheer for people that fuck them over it's like putting your hand in acid and saying it's good for you

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[-] dipshit@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Microsoft: Gets slapped with antitrust lawsuits for including Internet Exploder with Windows.

Microsoft: Hold my beer.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago
[-] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

I think it is funny that this community thinks it knows everything about privacy and security and every time I see a post like this it becomes apparent that the main of this community doesn't.

I like the Fediverse but it is a security and privacy nightmare.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 18 points 1 year ago

It would be, if users were convinced it is anything other than a public place.

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[-] TwoGems@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

If you're forced to use Windows for some things, use Windows 10 LTSC. If you can't buy it (because Microsoft refuses to let consumers buy a non-spyware version of their OS) then sail the high seas for it. It takes the telemetry out and you'll have full control over the OS, can more easily remove Edge and can set your group policy and other stuff to completely block telemetry to your taste.

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[-] alcamtar@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Facebook: you guys hide it?

[-] Hastur@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

Google: Laughing in Android.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 year ago

Google: Laughing in Chrome, scanning your entire file system

Google: Laughing in bloody web DRM

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[-] sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago

linux is not inherently immune ya'll

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[-] z0ds3c@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

All you can really do is make the spying as difficult as possible. That's really all we can do 🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️

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[-] Carter@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure Google also spies through the OS.

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[-] m3t00@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

somebody never reads the logs

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago

the reason they put so many cameras on phones is not for selfies

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago

I always love that scene in Batman where he's hacked everyone's phone to see all their cameras.

It looks like everyone in the world is standing around everywhere pointing their phone cameras in the most convenient directions to give a great view of streets, rooms and hallways everywhere.

In real life, if you tuned into people's cameras right now, fifty percent would be the inside of pockets, purses or clothing. A quarter would be pointed at blank walls, ceilings, floors or the sky. And the rest would be terribly close close-ups of people faces or the shower/bathroom/sink.

[-] guillermo_del_taco@lemdro.id 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I remember correctly, it wasn't the cameras, it was the microphones. It was able to recreate 3d scenes with some kind of sonar algorithm (probably by combining the microphones from multiple people in the same room?) (I actually really liked Batman using sonar). 3d images from microphones still sounds farfetched but, may actually be possible soon

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