New phone day for Android users should get a whole bunch easier.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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                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.

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                  I’d likely never know if Google stopped logging me into the apps I use when I get a new device?

                  What?