Post AhY0U0ujTxjv2DjSZk by Diamondjoy@mastodon.world
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(DIR) Post #AhWZafPQwXlCRg531U by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2024-05-03T19:52:23Z
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If you're on an android phone or device, you have three days to opt out of google's "find my device network."You'll likely have gotten an email about it, but I know in my case, GMail's own machine learning system didn't mark said email as important or meaningfully different in any way. I don't know what that says, but i'm pretty sure it's nothing good. Anyway, in case you can't find the email, you can get where you need to from this link:https://www.google.com/android/find/settings/fmdn
(DIR) Post #AhWavbv7D6OBeyRxIG by auzdavenice@mastodon.social
2024-05-03T20:07:21Z
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@Wolven FYI I had to first accept a "yes I want this" and then click back through to get the prompt for "opt out of network"I.e., for other folks reading this, might need to click through twice
(DIR) Post #AhWb2qP3lGXGbZuCAK by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2024-05-03T20:08:41Z
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@auzdavenice Yeah that is not at ALL what happened when I went through. What the hell, google.
(DIR) Post #AhWb4sSz3qXdaEi6m8 by 12thRITS@mstdn.social
2024-05-03T20:09:03Z
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@Wolven It's a bitcinconvenient, but I just stay logged out of Google except when updating software. Of course I don't use Gmail either, because why would you?
(DIR) Post #AhWbFnf7GPVXruarB2 by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2024-05-03T20:11:02Z
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@12thRITS Some of us have to for work, others want to for spam catches.
(DIR) Post #AhWbPg4SLJPvDj9jdo by artemis@dice.camp
2024-05-03T20:12:42Z
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@Wolven Wow. They make it hard to tell if it's off.When I open Find Device on my phone I get two options: "Accept" (highlighted button) or "Close" (smaller option). If I press close, it closes the app.So you can't go and see the setting with your eyeballs [This Option: Off], but you can get to a screen that would like you to turn it on.
(DIR) Post #AhWe3MnhblNEwkNA3s by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2024-05-03T20:41:16Z
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@artemis Google gets worse literally every day
(DIR) Post #AhWeYY1hv88Cjwn8l6 by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2024-05-03T20:47:58Z
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At present I have received reports of or directly seen at least four distinct UX/UD things that might happen when you go to that URL. Google gets worse literally every single day. JFC.
(DIR) Post #AhWemxfdNDfqKNL8TI by rootwyrm@weird.autos
2024-05-03T20:50:37Z
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@Wolven make it 5 - for some users, there is literally no way to opt out whatsoever. If you do say "no, absolutely not," it simply 'errors' so they can ignore your opt-out.
(DIR) Post #AhWfHDO7V6LnlJZdcu by bob@beamship.mpaq.org
2024-05-03T20:56:03Z
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@Wolven I do want to nuke this thing and put a real Linux OS on it... No more f***ing Google tracking already. 😡I just got an email server working for the first time in many years of trying and of course the shitheads won't let it send emails to them without adding a txt record to our DNS.
(DIR) Post #AhWfePB3pmL4zEWVuq by irenes@mastodon.social
2024-05-03T20:59:58Z
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@Wolven (it's highly likely that at least two of those categories depend on whether you're on mobile or desktop. it's also possible that it depends on whether you're signed in to Google or not. this is educated speculation based on our experience at Google years ago, we haven't tried to verify it.)
(DIR) Post #AhWjOCU5etYcnqx8Gu by incroyable_anis@mastodon.social
2024-05-03T21:42:10Z
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@Wolven 'est-ce que ça concerne tous les téléphones Android ou juste les Google pixel
(DIR) Post #AhWjUSWevi9gIB8f8y by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2024-05-03T21:43:17Z
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@treelzebub Yeah, that's the 5th screen I've heard about now. Christ.
(DIR) Post #AhWjWJk6YYF1dBJWZE by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2024-05-03T21:43:45Z
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@rootwyrm Yeah, just heard about this one.
(DIR) Post #AhWk6uJI4nzbT5DeHw by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2024-05-03T21:50:18Z
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@treelzebub Yup. A mess.
(DIR) Post #AhWqTIhAh22tC2RzIe by hackbod@mastodon.social
2024-05-03T23:01:33Z
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@Wolven Note that this does not send your location data to Google, if that is what you are worried about: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/04/find-my-device-network-security-privacy-protections.htmlTotally understand wanting to turn it off if you desire, but I think it can be argued it is fairly safe with your data.
(DIR) Post #AhWwIgUSU185X0pDDU by jqheywood@mastodon.social
2024-05-04T00:06:46Z
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@Wolven On my phone, from the url, I could select that I didn't want it for any of my devices, but then no button to continue. So I closed the app. When I checked settings, it was turned on. It was also checked on my tablet. Argh. That has to be enshitification by design. Turned it off on all devices by the settings approach
(DIR) Post #AhX0Qk9T9Za71L6cds by cw@hachyderm.io
2024-05-04T00:53:07Z
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@Wolven there seems to be quite a lot of well-planned engineering decisions in this solution. (https://security.googleblog.com/2024/04/find-my-device-network-security-privacy-protections.html) Are you against it for ideological reasons or some technical reason?
(DIR) Post #AhX5BKBltrZXvQeLuS by Cheesealicious@snaggletooth.life
2024-05-04T01:46:23Z
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@Wolven When I clicked your link I was presented with a map and with an overlay that asked if I would like to participate in find my phone. I tapped no thank you. Is that how you opt out? Because I can't find anything from the page google sends me to when I hit no thank you.
(DIR) Post #AhY0U0ujTxjv2DjSZk by Diamondjoy@mastodon.world
2024-05-04T12:28:22Z
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@Wolven I hope I did this right. Thanks for the Google warning!
(DIR) Post #AhvNpjB2sIwXydlPai by frost@chitter.xyz
2024-05-15T19:08:23Z
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@Wolven We're on Android but we're running Lineage with no Google stuff installed (beyond base Android itself, of course) and no Google account. Are we safe?