I absolutely agree with you. What I’m arguing against is baseless FUD without any specifics, any sources, any details, and making extraodinary claims without extraordinary evidence. I didn’t mean that the type of tracking is ridiculous, what I’m saying is ridiculous is the claim that Google is collecting the logs of EVERY touch on EVERY Android device. Does that claim even needs to be disproven?

• Is that happening on Chinese Android phones without any Google services?
• Is that happening on AOSP phones without Google services?
• Is that happening on GrapheneOS, on other custom ROMs?
• Is that happening on my washing machine that for some reason runs Android?
• Is that baked into the system? From which Android version? In a particular system app? Where can I see these logs of all touches for myself?

It is patently obvious it cannot be happening on EVERY Android device. And I’d welcome evidence that it’s happening on even a SINGLE one. But I don’t see it. Because it’s made up hyperbole that’s poisoning the discussion of real tracking.

Because your touches are tracked. But not system-wide, but in individual apps, by the individual developers, most of whom don’t share the data with Google, only if you use these apps, and each developer can only track what’s happening in their own app. Which is worth talking about, but it’s hard when people are just making stuff up.

Yes, I’m sure he’s angry people are diluting the invigilation he exposed by coming up with fake ones all the time, and making people think it’s not worth fighting it anymore.

Do you have something constructive to say? Did you read an interesting article about a new type of tracking by a security researcher? Maybe you ran your own network capture and found something previously unknown? Great, let’s share that and learn how to block it.

Do you just wave your hands around and say that Google knows everything about you at all times using all Android devices, through unspecified means based on your gut feeling? Then that’s not constructive and is just spreading helplessness.

Oh Google logs and collect all taps on the screen? I’d love to know through which system service that happens, how the data leaves the device, to which servers is it going, which devices are affected by this, and how we can disable it. Oh you made it up and actually there are no details? Right.

Yes, Google’s code processes every touch, they wrote Android after all, so you are technically correct.

Is it all being sent somewhere from every Android device? Of course not, that’s ridiculous. Individual apps might have various levels of usage analytics though.

The entire thing is for running Linux software on Windows, it’s the complete opposite of Wine.

Grub did not detect your VM, it detected a bootable operating system on the drive because you passed it through to your VM

Yeah, the bootable drive that contained my VM install, that’s what I’m saying.

But i prefer using a raw disk file image

I started that way, but I had a disk with a single partition that contained a single file - the raw disk image file, and eventually decided this is silly, the filesystem on that disk is useless.

I did that, and since I got a dedicated SSD drive for it, I used it for the VM as a block device. Later after a GRUB update I discovered Windows in my GRUB boot menu. Turns out GRUB detected my VM, and now I can physically boot into my VM. Which I didn’t even know was possible.

So yeah, I accidentally dual boot Windows without meaning to, even though it’s a VM. Except when I boot into it, then it’s not, apparently.

If that counts as recording then all phone calls are recorded by your microphone, in order to send the sound to the other party.

You should absolutely use GrapheneOS, but why would this optional offline feature sway you to it?

They calls are not recorded, are they? They are transcribed live.

They could also spy on you without providing this feature at all. I get not trusting Google, and you shouldn’t be using a Google Pixel in that case. But in the event that you are using a Google Pixel, this optional feature is only a positive. If Pixels spy on you, then they are doing it with this or without it.

The ads don’t cover anything though, the video continues where it stopped before the ads.

Says “up to”. It will probably come with 2TB, but they are happy to put in more if you want to pay for extra. But 40TB is when they start to refuse your unreasonable requests.

This link proves how robust the security research is and how quickly bugs like that are patched.

While these bugs happen, they are fixed very quickly, and wouldn’t be used by any marketing agency. Just keep your phone updated.

Comments like this try to make you give up on privacy by making it look like all is lost from the get to.

They are lying, don’t believe them, there is a lot you can do to protect your privacy.

That helps with other dangers, but in this case all you need to do is not give “Pool 3D” access to the microphone, no rooting required.

Yeah, and this one was.

Yeah, but not everyone has someone to help them, and many people will prefer Windows for the simple reason that it doesn’t give them problems they need to seek help about, even if the problems have good solutions available.

I don’t use Gnome, but I assume that in the Help menu of that window you will find contact information for the project. Submit a serious version of your image politely explaining the issues, and maybe if you feel like it a better designed alternative.

I imagine the author, who is probably a single person, would appreciate the feedback.

Yeah, but for non-technical people this is an insurmountable barrier. My aunt isn’t “trying a virtual machine”.