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Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:33:27 +0100, "Carlos
E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

>On 2025-03-17 17:05, micky wrote:
>> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:01:16 +0100, "Carlos
>> E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2025-03-16 16:10, micky wrote:
>>>> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:47:34 -0000 (UTC),
>>>> Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:22:25 +0100 (CET), anon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/google_android/
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm pretty sure they all do this (Apple, Google, someotherguy).
>>>>>
>>>>> I never expect ANY privacy on my phone, so never use is for things that
>>>>> require privacy. I assume that Google knows every keystroke I make. Then,
>>>>> on my only other device using Google (one browser on my desktop), I am
>>>>> careful what I do in that browser.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is one reason I've never trusted encrypted comm apps at all. Since my
>>>>> phone can see what I type and read, so can Google. They can see it when
>>>>> it's not encrypted yet, or already decrypted.
>>>>
>>>> Definitely google can.  That's how it's able to make suggestions on how
>>>> to finish what you were typing.  If it didn't know what you'd written,
>>>> the suggestions woudln't make sense.

So, since afaik I use the normal keyboard,  the question is whether the
google suggestions of how to finish the text in the search box come only
from what is in my computer, or from elsewhere too.   

The breadth of suggestions tells me they couldn't all be found in my
little computer.   I don't remember any examples right now, but as soon
as I do a google seach again, I'm sure I'll see some.  And not just
google, Bing too!

>>> It depends on your keyboard choice, and it is clearly stated when you
>>> select it.
>> 
>> Maybe in Spain it's clearly stated, or maybe if you actually select it
>> and don't just use the default that comes installed, or maybe both.   At
>> any rate, I don't think I ever saw it stated that what I type could be
>> read by someone else.   Or even an implication that another keyboard
>> would not allow this.
>
>The normal keyboard is silent. But some of the variants you can enable 
>have a text that say that google reads what you type. For instance, the 
>dictation "keyboard". And they warn you about it in the context of 
>typing passwords.

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How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app anon <anon@invalid.info> - 2025-03-16 14:22 +0100
  Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.org> - 2025-03-16 13:47 +0000
    Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-16 10:20 -0400
      Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-16 18:00 +0000
        Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-16 18:16 +0000
          Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-16 20:51 +0000
            Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-17 14:04 +0000
              Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-17 20:55 +0000
                Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app black hats <tipped@partners.invalid> - 2025-03-18 09:52 +0100
        Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-17 12:59 +0100
          Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-17 21:07 +0000
            Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-18 20:25 +0100
            Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2025-03-20 17:33 +0100
    Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-16 11:10 -0400
      Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-17 13:01 +0100
        Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-17 12:05 -0400
          Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-17 19:33 +0100
            Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-17 21:16 +0000
            Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-18 16:38 -0400
              Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-19 03:13 +0000
      Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-03-17 14:43 +0100
  Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-03-16 17:28 -0400
  Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-03-18 12:09 +0100
    Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-18 14:37 +0000
  Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-18 10:56 -0400

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