It also seems strange that someone who cares so much about his privacy doesn't have xposed with Xprivacy, because then he could have spoofed the data instead of having to block it all together.
Like everyone else, I'm always learning. Just sharing this post for others who weren't aware of Amazon's business model here (which does seem somewhat hidden).
https://www.mysonicwall.com/sonicalert/searchresults.aspx?ev...
I'm not saying you shouldn't use Xprivacy or other root-enabled apps, though, as some are very useful and it may be the only way to get Google to build in some of those features eventually, but just be aware of the trade-off you're making.
Why would malware be helped by having sudo installed? A privilege escalation attack has no use for it, unless you think there are security holes in sudo. Has there been or do you have reason to believe there are?
I heard these statements before and I'm never sure what to make of it. For a casual user, the possibility to click yes to a sudo dialog is a code path to disaster, but as these things need to be flashed specifically (which is a big hurdle in itself) I'm not sure how big problem it is in practice.
There seems to be a either full optimistic response or a pessimistic response. I am not saying abandon smartphones all ye who want privacy, I am saying that for those who aren't addicted to smartphones and want privacy they use non smart phones.
In a world where a private company owns public security cameras, yeah you should stay indoors because they track you every hour of every day, they built a machine to spy on you and they'll devour you.
Doing something is subject to realizing if the +ve aspects outweigh the -ve aspects, in a world where Google owns android/chrome/search/gmail/nest/adsense {insert million products here}
In this digital world these companies know more about us from analytic than we ourselves know, but that doesn't mean being pessimistic to anyone who suggests a particular use case for maintaining privacy.
Why? Does your public transport track your trips? do they sell your data to Uber/lyft so lyft/uber bombards you with save x% on your next trip?
>travel in bullock carts instead of airplanes
Why? are all airline companies owned by one entity which also owns a host of other companies which can abuse your data from one service for their advantage?
>If tech has a problem, then solve it rather than throwing that tech away
No, what I said was people who want real privacy and who aren't addicted to smartphones use a non smart phone
this doesn't mean we fear the end of world like George Orwell.