Google Pixel smartphone

[Glade]

Dave. said:

bmwmike said:

Glade said:

Glade said:

Edited to get rid of some advice...I reccomended a bluetooth widget app, but just found that it was constantly sending back loads of personal data... so i guess free is too good to be true!!

Edited by Glade on Sunday 7th April 20:50

Realised today that this app was taking loads of personal data, so i've deleted it, and removed the post above!

How did you discover that?

The duckduckgo app altered him.

Yeah this, there is an app tracking blocker in the duck duck go android app. I activated it and am quite amazed at how many apps that I haven't used are reporting back various statistics about me.

Can't decide if it's really sinister or if it's anonymised so I am not really being personally tracked. It is definitely weird.

E.g. why does my motorcycle Bluetooth headset need to report a bunch of info about me including location to Microsoft. Especially when I havn't been out on the bike for a couple of weeks - it's not to do with function during use of the app.

The downside is it takes the place of a VPN, but to be fair the tracking is probably worse than my ISP seeing that I am browsing pistonheads.

[bmwmike]

Thanks. Didn't realise DDG had that feature. It's a pity its not available, or is it, as a stand-alone I could add to my openvpn installation, so i can have android VPN to my home, then apply the anti-tracking stuff. That would be cool. Already have pihole and my own DNS running off the openvpn, but i'm not sure if that also does much in the way of the anti-tracking at the app level that DDG does.

Wonder if DDG can be installed headless and hook it off a proxy like squid.

[Dave.]

bmwmike said:

Thanks. Didn't realise DDG had that feature. It's a pity its not available, or is it, as a stand-alone I could add to my openvpn installation, so i can have android VPN to my home, then apply the anti-tracking stuff. That would be cool. Already have pihole and my own DNS running off the openvpn, but i'm not sure if that also does much in the way of the anti-tracking at the app level that DDG does.

Wonder if DDG can be installed headless and hook it off a proxy like squid.

Yeah it would be handy, I don't need another web browser on my phone, I already have Chrome (should probably stop using it), Firefox (for the auto trader add in), and Brave for YouTube (could probably switch to FF for that).

[Dave.]

DDG's app tracker blocker has its own DNS, so "bypasses" my pihole when I'm at home.

[NoComment]

Morning all,

Can anyone recommend me a decent screen protector for the Pixel 8, I've ordered and tried 3 now and none of them stick around the edge.

Very frustrating. Coming from a Pixel 6 and tried the same brand as I used for that but no joy.

Thanks No comment.

[d_a_n1979]

NoComment said:

Morning all,

Can anyone recommend me a decent screen protector for the Pixel 8, I've ordered and tried 3 now and none of them stick around the edge.

Very frustrating. Coming from a Pixel 6 and tried the same brand as I used for that but no joy.

Thanks No comment.

Whitestone Dome; exactly what I've got fitted to my P8P and my wifes P8

Zero issues; just watch the How To on YT and go from there

https://www.amazon.co.uk/DOME-GLASS-Whitestone-Pro...

[TotalControl]

Got an email from Google One for my subscription saying some changes will be made, the only one that may concern me is the VPN functionality. They said its going from One but will be on your phone instead.

Is that right or did I read it wrong?

[Gren]

If you have a Pixel 7 or above you will still have a Google VPN on your phone. Everyone else with a One subscription loses the VPN