Timeline for How to prevent an app from sharing its data with Google?
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| May 19, 2021 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAndroid/status/1395031532813836292 | ||
| May 19, 2021 at 14:31 | comment | added | Aaron F | look into TrackerControl - you can get it from F-Droid | |
| May 19, 2021 at 9:27 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 19, 2021 at 7:42 | comment | added | Izzy | That's what I'd recommend as well: disable it (you have close to no control about it anyway and never know what's backed up and will restore and what not), and take care for backups yourself. Note that LineageOS started adopting Seedvault as replacement for that G-Backup; with Seedvault you not only can define where your backups end up (local SD card, Nextcloud etc) but also see what is backed up, what not, and control it. So if such a custom ROM is an option… ;) | |
| May 19, 2021 at 6:24 | comment | added | Robert | You can completely disable GDrive Backup in Android settings then it doesn't matter if the apps allow cloud backup. | |
| May 19, 2021 at 5:50 | answer | added | beeshyams | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 19, 2021 at 1:26 | history | asked | Amazon Dies In Darkness | CC BY-SA 4.0 |