Android will soon instantly log you in to your apps on new devices - eviltoast

New phone day for Android users should get a whole bunch easier.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    29 days ago

    Okay, good for you. you’re comfortable with it. I’m not. I don’t trust any company to control my access to OTHER companies. That at it’s face is a conflict of interest.

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      29 days ago

      That’s some real tinfoil hat stuff, to be honest. If Google did pull something like that, I could always just create an account the old fashioned way.

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        29 days ago

        You don’t need tinfoil to realize we live in a technology dystopia. All of our privacy and data is sold to the highest bidder. Even if it’s illegal, as long as it turns a profit higher than any sanctions.

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        29 days ago

        That’s some real tinfoil hat stuff

        If you say so. I only work in IT and security.

        If Google did pull something like that

        You’d likely never know.

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          29 days ago

          I’d likely never know if Google stopped logging me into the apps I use when I get a new device?

          What?

          • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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            29 days ago

            No. The implication of my “comfortability” with google holding my credentials is that they can use it, or leak it. You wouldn’t know that they did it. I said I don’t trust them, you said “if google did pull something”, I’m saying you wouldn’t even know if they DID pull something. They control such a vast amount of infrastructure and resources that they could do a boatload of malicious stuff and you’d never know. Hell they do some quite malicious things with AMP, ads, pushing nonstandard shit in chrome, etc… But you do you. Give them all your shit. They won’t complain. But you won’t catch me in that boat.