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Re:New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking by throwawaymjabba on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:39PM (#19061119)
Another one is body sensors. I disabled body sensor permission for play services. Whenever I am using Google Maps, it would complain about the permission every few minutes. Thankfully, found later an option to disable that nagging in maps setting. Maps still worked fine.
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Re:New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking by codedokode on Saturday February 02, 2019 @04:35AM (#19062080)
It reminds me of Android 5 where every time you enable GPS, Google shows a popup asking you to share your location with them (very annoying). And besides, there is a checkbox "Don't ask me again", but if you tick it, the "Decline" button gets disabled to ensure that you don't make the wrong choice.

[1] https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/115944/how-to-pr...

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Re:New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking by throwmeback on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:01AM (#19075354)
It's still there in Android 7 and it's still a travesty.
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