check your permissions, & then check, on google, what those perms allow…

IF you’re in Android, not iPhone, THEN there is nothing you can do to block google from knowing your phone-number.

Whether iPhone users truly have privacy from google…

i wouldn’t bet much on that…

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As former mafia man ( Firenzese, or something ) said:

once they’ve got enough all-pervading leverage on you, then you cannot win: the leverage locks.

I’m misphrasing it, and he was speaking about the mob, but the principle is true, globally not only in the context he was speaking.

All of surveillance-capitalism is rooted in putting the subjects/serfs in a panopticon, & never letting them out, squeezing them all until the individuals die, being replaced by new inmates, but the population-as-a-whole never would be tolerated to escape…

Perfect industrialized parasitism.

sorry about the bitterness: i’m an old geek & had some idea of what good could be done, world-wide, with tech…

DarkTriad’s incorporated-feudalism proved it won, totally, easily.

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