Is it safe to have an Android phone? What if they decide to deplatform your Google account associated with it. What about trusting your number to Google Fi? I have both and I am nervous.
At this point doing anything but search and ads with google is like going to a steak house and ordering a lasagne. It’s just not what they’re good at.
"the subsequent review of his account turned up a video from six months earlier that Google also considered problematic, of a young child lying in bed with an unclothed woman."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/tech...
"Private and secure" - private and secure from other people. Never from Google. Never from the US government.
How does this work when your account has been banned? Is my phone a brick afterwards? Someone should try this out.
When I had an Android (OnePlus) device I often factory reset when tinkering with it, go to bed and continue whatever I wanted to do on the next day. Of course my phone had it's bootloader unlocked and TWRP recovery, since I was trying to get lineageOS + spoofed signatures + microG to work.
So basically the scenario is: factory reset your phone, go to bed, wake up with banned google account, have a new brick decor for your garden.
Would be funny if they didn't think of this possibility.
Google Fi: Depends on your country's laws for how phone number transfers work.
If you have apps, movies etc bought from Google Play — those are gone too.
If you use a @gmail email address, you lose that too and you now have to tell people not use that any more.