Android 12 features Material You, a new UI theming system based on color extraction. Find out how this feature jeopardizes user privacy and what you can do to protect yourself.
I use Muzei and my wallpaper changes every half hour, so I’m not really affected.
But even if I was, so the fuck what? If you’re sacrificing your personal enjoyment of your phone for privacy, you’re either a secret agent or you’re overly paranoid.
Most of us are running adblocking at the DNS level, so what exactly are you worried about?
If you’re sacrificing your personal enjoyment of your phone for privacy, you’re either a secret agent or you’re overly paranoid.
Most of us are running adblocking at the DNS level
To actually address this, pretty much every privacy improvement you can make on your phone, your computer, or your everyday life comes at the cost of convenience. It’s not impossible to see usability benefits along with privacy ones, like the ad blocking you mentioned, but that’s the exception and not the rule.
I use Muzei and my wallpaper changes every half hour, so I’m not really affected.
But even if I was, so the fuck what? If you’re sacrificing your personal enjoyment of your phone for privacy, you’re either a secret agent or you’re overly paranoid.
Most of us are running adblocking at the DNS level, so what exactly are you worried about?
Paranoia for the sake of paranoia is stupid!
To actually address this, pretty much every privacy improvement you can make on your phone, your computer, or your everyday life comes at the cost of convenience. It’s not impossible to see usability benefits along with privacy ones, like the ad blocking you mentioned, but that’s the exception and not the rule.
Let’s be honest though, “don’t set a wallpaper, in case they track you” is extreme. It’s the privacy equivalent of the £1000 Ethernet Cables.