Android with the basic settings in a privacy-invader. Also, a PC withy any typical web-browser on basic settings is like that.
Even if I like the features that a smartphone and apps can have, it needs a lot of thinking to be careful.
Twitter is banning people from content placed on other platforms!
One asks how they know what people write on other platforms.
There are those “tweet”, like, and similar “buttons” that are actually java scripts running in the background, doing who knows what.
And on basic settings in any browser (mobile or PC or whatever), once you logged in, always logged in. Private browsing is always off on basic settings, and once you logged in, those tweet buttons can know who is doing what.
And those advertisement companies putting another lot of tricky tracking methods into web pages, like third party java scripts and cookies, one pixel images, flash-cookies, who knows what. Yes even this site has “Google Analytics” script running in the background, if you don’t block it. Once you signed into gmail, youtube, or similar, or browse from smartphone, or Google Chrome (remember that “login to chrome” thing?) then google may know what you are doing.
And, basic webpages are mostly accessed in http, not in https, so what you watch is out in the clear. (and https cannot be trusted either, any ISP or authority may have chance to SSL-inspection (man-in the middle attack, probably having secret keys of the ssl CA authorities too) what you do, although it is more effort. And even without that, there is still the meta-data collected (site name, when, how long,how much data,…) for a https connection. ISP can see how long one watches pornhub even if he accesses it in https only, just they don’t see (without more effort) what he looks at.
Suggested: always private-browsing (maybe not always delete cache, on slow connections like expensive mobile data), some ad blocker, noscript, ghostery, web rtc control, https everywhere, some cookie cleaner, and don’t have flash on the computer at all, it is a danger. these will limit what third parties see while you browse.
Some people would suggest tor, vpn, and whatever, but I guess using that may attract even more surveillance on you. No perfect darknet has been created so far, ot it is so dark that regular people (who want just privacy, not to be illegal) just don’t know about it.
On android, or any smart phone whatever, apps require a lot of permissions for ad-targeting (this is written at least, who knows real reason?). Next time be warned when a flashlight app asks for anything else then “camera permission” which is the only real requirement to turn on the LED that is the camera flash actually. And think twice what you install.
Do you have “Google play services” (to install and update apps) on the phone like everyone else? then it runs on a system level, can see anything. required for google’s stuff, and a handful other apps, as a background framework too. Solution is to root phone, clear all google stuff, use apkpure.com to get installers, and only use google stuff from pc web browser in private browsing.
A good alternative to google maps is “maps.me”, no privacy invasion I know about, works offline really good, can do routing (car, bike, walk), (whole map of Europe is 15 GB of my SD card, no need to spend on mobile data roaming abroad)
All apps want network access, it’s no longer mentioned in permissions. And if you don’t root your device to install a firewall and a method to remove permissions that are “too much” then this is what you get. Yor contact list, messages, browsing history, account names, location, anything uploaded and collected by who knows what and why. I guess, if it were just ad-targeting, it would work well with less than 1% of that information. Ad targeting may be a pretext for software level preparations to a totalitarian world domination of the companies and agencies and who knows who.
And, top of that, all the apps, applications, software, and even computer hardware is vulnerable to various attacks, all stuff is designed in a hurry, and released to the market without good testing. you know, wild-capitalism, be first time at hte market, no matter what. Even if some bugs and vulnerabilities are in the code… maybe publish update later, or not, it costs money to write an update…
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