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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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How Android Wallpaper Images Can Threaten Your Privacy (fingerprint.com)

submitted 7 months ago by overflow64@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 7 months ago

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.