7 simple things I always do on Android to protect my privacy - and why you should too
www.zdnet.com
Your personal information is highly valuable to many threat actors. Here's how to keep it safe.

Until you get a chance to leave behind Google’s Android operating system completely, here’s an article I saw with a few fairly simple things you can do that will reduce (although not eliminate) the ability of Google and others to scrape your data and monetize you.

I already do step 1 (Firefox etc). But looking at step 5, for example, my phone had all those ad options set to “on”.

  • @agavaa@lemmy.world
    3•2 months ago

    I’ve done a lot of these steps, but when I tried FOSS keyboard app my bank’s app refused to work because the keyboard was"insecure", accepted Google keyboard only 🤡

    • noodle (he/him)
      2•2 months ago

      I’ve had that happen with Credit Agricole’s app in the past. it would close immediately and load a website that suggested using Google’s Gboard or Microsoft’s Swiftkey :|