[ale] [was] Re: Give application write access to /dev/console?

[Jim Kinney]

It requires the play store app and services to be running. The play store has the location tracker.

I found, by digging, the location history that stuff collected. It was detailed enough that it could stand up in court as a method to place me near a crime scene or exonerate me. So I went through and turned it all off. The gmail app then barfed warnings about missing functionality until  some tracking stuff was reactivated. Additionally, I found no way to stop gmail from respecting my choice for firefox. I frequently get news notices from a friend I travelled to Ireland with. Gmail started using only chrome for links. Chrome has no method to flush browser history that I could find.

K-9 works just fine. Firefox works just fine. Cuprum pdf viewer is pretty crappy (can only display first of a multi-page pdf).

I have a nice, new Oneplus 5 and I'm very close to doing a full wipe and install only apps from freedroid.

On August 28, 2017 2:10:01 AM EDT, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>I was searching for information on this but couldn't find it.  Is it
>really requiring location services to be turned on all the time?  Is it
>not possible to disable location tracking through the system settings?
>In the Play store it doesn't list location as a permission.
>
>I use K-9 as well but I was curious about the Gmail app needing
>location
>data.
>
>On 2017-08-27 20:36, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Once I noticed the gmail app update required turning on and leaving
>on the 
>> location tracking, that was the end of using it for me.
>> 
>> Google made using their email with non-google tool look like an
>insecure mess. 
>> All FUD.
>> 
>> Probably dumping google.com <http://google.com> email soon, too.
>> 
>> On August 27, 2017 11:18:06 PM EDT, Kyle Brieden <kyle at txmoose.com>
>wrote:
>> 
>>     I love that I'm not the only person in the world still using K-9
>mail on
>>     Android :D
>> 
>>     ---
>>     Very respectfully,
>>     Kyle Brieden
>> 
>>     On 27-08-2017 14:44, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> 
>>         Bwahaha!
>> 
>>         On August 27, 2017 1:15:34 PM EDT, Ben Coleman
><oloryn at benshome.net>
>>         wrote:
>> 
>>             On 8/26/2017 04:58 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> 
>>                 Ah.
>> 
>>                 Remedy. Ugh.
>> 
>> 
>>             So, it's not so much the Remedy as it is the Disease?
>> 
>>             Ben
>> 
>> 
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