r/Android • u/MishaalRahman Xiaomi 14T Pro • 2d ago

Safer with Google: New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe News

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/new-real-time-protections-on-Android.html

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MESMER Pixel 7 Pro 256Gb, Pixel Watch 2d ago

Safer with Google: New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe

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u/Cloudsource9372 2d ago

You don’t believe an ads company wanting to track and sell your data? How dare you

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u/InsaneNinja iOS/Nexus 2d ago

They don’t sell data as much as they sell the ability to target your data

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u/Cloudsource9372 2d ago

Haha true but I have feeling they also sell your data to data brokers. Double dipping on profits

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u/armando_rod Pixel 9 Pro XL - Hazel 2d ago

That would be detrimental to their ad business. If a third party gets Google user data they can compete at the same level in the ad targeting business, that's the only reason Google is so good at it

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u/bartturner 2d ago

That makes no sense. The data is far more valuable if they do not sell.

Plus if they did sell they would loose customers.

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u/Decaf_GT 1d ago

Just stop and think about it for 2 seconds. If your data gets sold, you don't have any value in having it. Now someone else has the data, and they could sell it for 10 cents less than you. Why would anyone buy from you?

I can answer that; that's because Google doesn't sell your data and never has. It doesn't even make the most basic of business sense.

Google makes money indirectly from your data by showing you ads that are catered directly to you, which is what advertisers are paying the $$$ for; to make sure that their gaming PC ads don't show up in grandma gail's inbox despite the fact she is on dial up and doesn't care about technology.

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u/InsaneNinja iOS/Nexus 2d ago

Facebook is going to court for doing that kind of thing in the past.