New phone day for Android users should get a whole bunch easier.
No thanks.
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Why? Samsung phones have already been doing this for years and it makes getting a new device so much easier. All I gotta do is login to my account and everything is transferred over.
Honestly, it works so well that I can just start using the new phone without any extra effort. Literally everything is exactly where I left it on the old phone. It’s one of my favorite new features in smartphones.
In the past it used to take me at least two days to set up a new phone the way I like it, and several weeks to months to iron out the kinks and get back logged into everything. Now I can be up and running in under an hour. It’s the best thing ever.
Hopefully graphene will rip this shit out
This just reminds me I want to try https://grapheneos.org/
You trust credencials to Google?
Yes, why wouldn’t we?
You asked a question, I’m in the obligation of answering it.
I am aware that what I am about to write is going to make ne sound, to say the least, a bit paranoid but it is how I opted to navigate in the current computer crazed world, where personal convenience is a default argument.
I distrust anything I can’t have a certain degree of control over. I don’t use cloud services (it’s someone else’s computer, not mine), I don’t use Google Maps, Android Auto, Speech Recognition, backup services, etc. I also kneecap as far as I am capable to the convenience services in my phone and when I manage to get a phone I can load with a non-Google OS, I will. I do without and I am happy as it is.
Regarding passwords, I do not use password managers. At best, I’ll use my browser to store a few and even then only if its low risk accesses. The rest I commit to memory and paper. It doesn’t slow or hinder my daily life, I’m a functional member of society and deal daily with people that would consider me unbalanced if I told them the extensions I go to in order to preserve a small amount of my privacy.
I don’t evangelize. If it works for others, good for them. I does not for me.
Because you literally put all your eggs in one basket…
This may hurt some feelings, but I trust Google more than some FOSS password manager. Besides, I log into pretty much everything with my Google account anyway.
Okay, good for you. you’re comfortable with it. I’m not. I don’t trust any company to control my access to OTHER companies. That at it’s face is a conflict of interest.
That’s some real tinfoil hat stuff, to be honest. If Google did pull something like that, I could always just create an account the old fashioned way.
You don’t need tinfoil to realize we live in a technology dystopia. All of our privacy and data is sold to the highest bidder. Even if it’s illegal, as long as it turns a profit higher than any sanctions.
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That’s some real tinfoil hat stuff
If you say so. I only work in IT and security.
If Google did pull something like that
You’d likely never know.
I’d likely never know if Google stopped logging me into the apps I use when I get a new device?
What?
