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Just enabled DDG's app track protection to test it out. Had Nekogram opened for a few mins, and Google already made 234 data collection attempts. I know the Big Guys are hungry for personal data, but this is absolutely ridiculous.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

this is crazy or whatever i guess but your phone is a living breathing data collecting MACHINE until you get a custom OS. Graphene, Lineage, etc.

Google and other software runs as a root context in these stock operating systems, so it can see and do whatever it wants on all possible levels, even scanning your screen and keylogging your typing. if you collecting things about your Nekogram was bad? think again lol. there's much worse.

go study about how the OS works. then get a custom rom.

[–] patak 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I actually am planning on installing an android alternative, but I do not know which OS supports my redmi 13C. I also fear the loss warranty because editing/changing/modding/rooting the stock system makes the warranty void. I mean my phone's still new, bought it somewhere near the end of January this year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

look into Lineage,but otherwise you may have to get new hardware.

and yes, doing anything that might improve your quality of daily living will always void the warranty on hardware, because improving your life would be very bad for them.