check your permissions, & then check, on google, what those perms allow…
IF you’re in Android, not iPhone, THEN there is nothing you can do to block google from knowing your phone-number.
Whether iPhone users truly have privacy from google…
i wouldn’t bet much on that…
As former mafia man ( Firenzese, or something ) said:
once they’ve got enough all-pervading leverage on you, then you cannot win: the leverage locks.
I’m misphrasing it, and he was speaking about the mob, but the principle is true, globally not only in the context he was speaking.
All of surveillance-capitalism is rooted in putting the subjects/serfs in a panopticon, & never letting them out, squeezing them all until the individuals die, being replaced by new inmates, but the population-as-a-whole never would be tolerated to escape…
Perfect industrialized parasitism.
sorry about the bitterness: i’m an old geek & had some idea of what good could be done, world-wide, with tech…
DarkTriad’s incorporated-feudalism proved it won, totally, easily.
check your permissions, & then check, on google, what those perms allow…
IF you’re in Android, not iPhone, THEN there is nothing you can do to block google from knowing your phone-number.
Whether iPhone users truly have privacy from google…
i wouldn’t bet much on that…
As former mafia man ( Firenzese, or something ) said:
once they’ve got enough all-pervading leverage on you, then you cannot win: the leverage locks.
I’m misphrasing it, and he was speaking about the mob, but the principle is true, globally not only in the context he was speaking.
All of surveillance-capitalism is rooted in putting the subjects/serfs in a panopticon, & never letting them out, squeezing them all until the individuals die, being replaced by new inmates, but the population-as-a-whole never would be tolerated to escape…
Perfect industrialized parasitism.
sorry about the bitterness: i’m an old geek & had some idea of what good could be done, world-wide, with tech…
DarkTriad’s incorporated-feudalism proved it won, totally, easily.
🙏
My Android devices have never been logged into Google, and the tablet I’m posting from has no SIM card, so it has no phone number.
They have no record of a phone number for me, because I’ve never signed into Google on any active Android device.
Edit: I also have Google Play and Services, and most other Google apps disabled. FOSS for the win! They really don’t have any phone number for me.