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V_R:
--- Quote from: sevenlayermuddle on March 11, 2018, 06:20:20 PM ---If it is an Android then my personal, biased, slightly tongue in cheek advice, would be to destroy it and buy an iPhone. I am semi serious as it is how I dealt with my own Android phone after I understood Google’s approach to privacy, but no doubt other more constructive advice will be forthcoming. :)
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Fanboy much? Because Apple are so much better right? ::)
Least I know my Pixel 2 XL won't start getting slower with each software update. ;)
--- Quote ---Worth mentioning, a pal of mine has been complaining of something not quite the same, but similar. He gets ‘welcome’ messages and other spam, such as suggestions of where to eat, when he arrives at places shopping centres and the likes.
He’s a pretty competent techie, being a retired software engineer for a major mainframe manufacturer, but he’s not quite figured out how to stop it. The sledgehammer approach of disabling all location services might work, but he doesn’t want do do that. His device is an Android.
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As I said in the first post, could well be GMaps, and if it is you can just go in to the setting and turn off the notifications you don't want.
sevenlayermuddle:
--- Quote from: V_R on March 11, 2018, 09:13:41 PM ---As I said in the first post, could well be GMaps, and if it is you can just go in to the setting and turn off the notifications you don't want.
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Not entirely convinced. On my iPhone, both Apple maps and Google maps (which is better) have location access. Yet I get no such annoyances.
Difference is, being an iPhone, I am not signed in to Google... they know where my phone is, based on the Google cookie that identifies device, but they don’t know who I am, or how to spam me. If it were an Android phone, I would almost cetainly be signed in, and Google would know exactly who I was, and how to spam me.
Bowdon:
It is the same for me. I carry my phone (android) and don't get the notifications.
When I was searching online someone mentioned about the google maps option. They say it worked for them. But yea, it doesn't explain why my phone doesn't get those notifications and my dads does.
The only difference between our phones is he has bluetooth turned on all the time because he uses it in the car for hands free.
When I was looking around the net earlier there was a shop owner asking how he could setup bluetooth to send a message to anyone passing his store. According to him a shop up the road had it setup. I've heard its called bluejacking or something like that. That topic went on to talk about the legal issues surrounding that. Apparently it comes down to the content of the message if its allowed or not.
sevenlayermuddle:
So far as I understand, Bluejacking lies somewhere between hacking and prank. Also not sure whether it depends on weak security by the phone owner?
But Asda being what Asda are, whilst not exactly Waitrose, I’d be surprised if they would stoop so low as to use such a dodgy exploit in commercial practice. ???
Ronski:
--- Quote from: Bowdon on March 11, 2018, 06:53:47 PM ---He opened the message and it opened up a list of all the locations he'd been in the last 6 months with the name of the place and 5 stars that you can select.
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It's Google maps, nothing sinister. Do you or 7LM ever use Google reviews, find the information that Google states about a place useful, I know I do. How to you think it gets there? The majority is from users like me who actually take the time to leave a review, update opening times, add website details, move the location marker to the correct location etc. If I don't have time I simply ignore the request or clear it. I'm pretty sure if you look there is an option to stop it asking you if you or your father doesn't wish to contribute.
--- Quote from: sevenlayermuddle on March 11, 2018, 06:20:20 PM ---If it is an Android then my personal, biased, slightly tongue in cheek advice, would be to destroy it and buy an iPhone. I am semi serious as it is how I dealt with my own Android phone after I understood Google’s approach to privacy, but no doubt other more constructive advice will be forthcoming. :)
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Rant.
No surprise there really, rather wasteful if you did destroy it. You support the greediest company I know of, and probably least open, one of their biggest successes is how they driven the price of decent mobiles through the roof! Look how it slowed peoples phones down, a good idea but it should have said so, so what else does it not tell users? At least with Android people can pick the code apart, release their own ROMS, so if anything really sinister was going on we'd probably know about it. I'm Android all the way, I wouldn't buy anything that came from the evil empire that is Apple, what do you think will happen if they were the only phone maker?
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