Re:Leaving Apple and Google: more devices now supported
by ma2rten on Saturday November 24, 2018 @12:46PM
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Thanks. I didn't see that. Why exactly do iPhones send data to Google servers? Ads on apps/websites?
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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: more devices now supported
by johnklos on Saturday November 24, 2018 @12:52PM
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Section F, page 4 has a summary:
f. While using an iOS device, if a user decides to forgo the use of any Google product (i.e. no Android, no Chrome, no Google applications), and visits only non-Google webpages, the number of times data is communicated to Google servers still remains surprisingly high. This communication is driven purely by advertiser/publisher services. The number of times such Google services are called from an iOS device is similar to an Android device. In this experiment, the total magnitude of data communicated to Google servers from an iOS device is found to be approximately half of that from the Android device.
Re:Leaving Apple and Google: more devices now supported
by alain94040 on Saturday November 24, 2018 @12:52PM
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From the article, I gather that the traffic is for google ads as you browse the web (AdSense).
Re:Leaving Apple and Google: more devices now supported
by tinus_hn on Sunday November 25, 2018 @07:35AM
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Don’t forget Google Analytics, Google Fonts and Google AMP?
Re:Leaving Apple and Google: more devices now supported
by kcirtap-hs on Saturday November 24, 2018 @01:25PM
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iPhone uses Google as built-in search engine in Safari, thus indirectly compromising data privacy. And Apple is reported to get billions from Google for this https://community.e.foundation/t/google-could-be-paying-appl...