7 simple things I always do on Android to protect my privacy - and why you should too
www.zdnet.com
Your personal information is highly valuable to many threat actors. Here's how to keep it safe.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42786765

Until you get a chance to leave behind Google’s Android operating system completely, here’s an article I saw with a few fairly simple things you can do that will reduce (although not eliminate) the ability of Google and others to scrape your data and monetize you.

I already do step 1 (Firefox etc). But looking at step 5, for example, my phone had all those ad options set to “on”.

  • jayemar@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    I didn’t know any the privacy dashboard. According to the article:

    The Privacy Dashboard is found in Settings > “Security & privacy” > Privacy Dashboard. It’s a good idea to check this dashboard regularly.