Investigators increasingly use warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and even for people who had nothing to do with the crime.
Perhaps not, but your mobile carrier will! I use a Pixel 5 with LineageOS installed (and no google services), but I also needed to install Google Docs for a project (since the web interface refuses to load on Android) which means that Google is still able to access my IP address–but I think that’s better than Google’s “location history”, or Play Protect on Android sending a list of all installed apps
I generally like being as close to mainline/AOSP as possible, and I used LineageOS for years on my Essential PH-1. That being said, it does look like the Pixel suffers from no lack of custom ROMs, so I may “distro hop” for a bit in the future
Will Google know where I am if I turn off every tracking shit I can turn off?
Perhaps not, but your mobile carrier will! I use a Pixel 5 with LineageOS installed (and no google services), but I also needed to install Google Docs for a project (since the web interface refuses to load on Android) which means that Google is still able to access my IP address–but I think that’s better than Google’s “location history”, or Play Protect on Android sending a list of all installed apps
Mobile carrier I (although it’s against my will) have less problem. Thanks for your input!
Who’s your carrier? I’ve been considering a switch to lineage or graphene but I haven’t pulled the trigger yet
Out of curiosity, if you’re on a Pixel, why not choose GrapheneOS?
I generally like being as close to mainline/AOSP as possible, and I used LineageOS for years on my Essential PH-1. That being said, it does look like the Pixel suffers from no lack of custom ROMs, so I may “distro hop” for a bit in the future
Yup. The tracking stuff just makes it easier, but standard use of the phone sans tracking is still trackable.
I believe these are like the Chrome “private” mode. It might look private to you, but they are definitely still logging everything.