Hi! What would be the best way to limit play serbices to only selected apps. I still need notifications to work from them, but would like to be sure that google can’t access anything else

  • Remy Rose@lemmy.one
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    5 months ago

    I don’t really understand this stuff super well, but… I suspect what it means is that Google can track you while google maps is open, BUT since it doesn’t have access to the rest of your phone, they’ll have no idea who you are anyway?

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      5 months ago

      And you can also not log into Google Maps. It still lets you use map and navigation etc. But it is denied any explicit methods of identifying you and is left with only probabilistic methods (i.e. you are searching from the same network and therefore same public IP as another device that is known to Google as being associated with your account).

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        5 months ago

        This would only be true if you’re using Google maps through a privacy respecting web browser like mull.

        If you’re using the Google maps app, it has hardware identifiers, and can uniquely identify the phone. No guessing required