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napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

But if you’re using it for privacy-from-Google purposes you probably don’t care about those.

Correct, I am not using GrapheneOS to then give my data to Google willingly. Kinda defeats the purpose I would say. It is the right thing that this is blocked by default and you have to actively turn it on.

also RCS Is this a country-specific topic? I don’t know a single person who still uses SMS/MMS to communicate. Everybody here uses WhatsApp or Signal.

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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I am not using GrapheneOS to then give my data to Google willingly

No one enables it to “give Google data”, they use it to get apps to work that use it as a dependency.

I don’t know anybody who still uses SMS/MMS to communicate.

RCS is neither.

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- napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  No one enables it to “give Google data”, they use it to get apps to work that use it as a dependency.
  
  Well yes of course, but you are still giving away your data, regardless of intention. And a privacy feature of GrapheneOS is that it redirects location data requests to the OS by default. Thats why you have to disable it in the settings if you want Google to have this data.
  
  RCS is neither.
  
  AFAIK it is specifically meant as a replacement for SMS and is used with regular pre-installed SMS Apps.
  
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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    AFAIK it is specifically meant as a replacement for SMS
    
    Nope
    
    and is used with regular pre-installed SMS Apps.
    
    Only works with 3 proprietary apps, that I’m aware of. Google and Samsung Messages and iMessage.
    
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    napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    It is a replacement of SMS and MMS on cellular networks with more modern features
    
    en.wikipedia.org/…/Rich_Communication_Services
    
    I have no deeper knowledge of this topic, but to me it seems like Wikipedia is disagreeing.
    
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