I understand they charge for the information. So, they profit off it, too. As do the data brokers. Of course, the lettered agencies are paying with our money.
Maybe I should de-google my phone again. Just to be sure.
I completely block them with DNS and have considered IP blocks as well. I prefer it this way because in iOS it’s not just Google apps and websites contacting Google, it’s all sorts of third-party apps and websites too.
In fact I learned the hard way that cellular carriers in the US have given up on RCS deployments and defer it all to Google: you have to specifically unblock some Google servers if you want RCS to work on iOS.
Remember playing Outer Worlds and thinking this is closer to reality than i’m comfortable with… we’re living this. Need to finish de-Googling.
I could consider that I have almost finished my degoogling. I still have to change my SO smartphone to one with grapheneos and voila.
The path is not easy, but the results are pretty satisfying.
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honestly why does one even need google services for? eveyrthing works fine without it in my experience
Banks, payment apps, many apps that shows google maps in their ui breaks without play service. Some use it to auto read verification SMS. Countless more… Google won!
people needs to understand that they don’t need an app for every damn thing.
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WhatsApp does not need play services. It may be necessary for cloud backups and stuff…but you can do local backups instead… Play service is not a hard requirement.
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whatsapp works fine in my experience
