Seems like banning all advertising would end all this stupidity. Seems like Google Android is following iOS’s lead…

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This is the same thing as in chrome

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Yet another reason not to use Chrome

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it kills me. There are some products I like such as Android Auto/Maps/Waze but then they do this and it pisses me off.

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on top of that I use Google Fi which works great in my area . . . I’m just screwed . .

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Wow insane that carriers have the power to affect that

In Canada that wouldn’t be an issue

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Jesus. They keep adding more that default to “on,” and bury the settings deeper each time. It’s absurd.

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I literally got a notification that took me to this menu. They aren’t trying to hide it

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I didn’t. I only found out about it through this post.

I also had to dig down two menus deep past the config search results. Looks pretty hidden to me.

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I didn’t either. Found it four pages deep. under “other privacy settings”, nonchalantly placed at the bottom of the last page. And i just did a search for that kind of thing two weeks ago and somehow missed it.

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Thank you for the screenshot! I had no idea this had been stuck in there. Thankfully it was sent to off for whatever reason.

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This is all avoided if you just use GrapheneOS.

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