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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • bazingabot@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Ok boomer
    4·
    29 days ago

    I wouldn’t mind if either the cost savings by the grocery store would be transparently passed on to the customer and not greedily put in own pockets OR the checkout process is like " walk through a gate, everything is self scanned due to RFID tags and you can pay immediately at a machine"

  • bazingabot@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Google tracks your app usage and so much moreEnglish
    54·
    1 year ago

    I use a couple of counter measures and I am quite happy since years and hope to be as invisible as possible for tracking companies. I have a samsung phone, this is what I did:

    • on your pc install adb
    • when switching on the phone for the first time, dont connect to wifi, dont make or use a google account, press skip and all the fake “warnings” until you see your launcher
    • download a browser apk of your liking and install it via browser
    • activate developer mode for apk (you find the instructions online)
    • via command line remove all samsung bloatware
    • uninstall all google apps except the absolute must haves like “google play service” and so on
    • go into settings - apps in your phone and deactivate all remaining google apps that you dont dare to delete via adb
    • install an alternate app store via your newly installed browser
    • install wireguard and setup connection to your vpn at home
    • on my homeserver install pihole or adguard home to block google out completely
    • set a different search engine like qwant or so in your browser
    • install all the security add ins in your browser to your liking

    As a result, I am almost google free, except probably for samsungs trackers. Sometimes apps or commerce websites dont work as they use google captcha or things like that.