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  • Do iOS apps, especially Google iOS apps, incorporate the GSF Google Ser

    From Andy Burnelli@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 16 16:41:34 2023
    Q1: Do iOS apps incorporate the Google GSF (or equivalent) from Google?
    Q2: How do you know and how can you tell when you install any given app?

    There are quite a few free adfree apps which work both on Android & on iOS. Some examples (arbitrarily from my outdoor-maps homescreen folder) are
    <https://www.outerspatial.com/> for all 279 park maps, caches for offline
    <https://www.avenza.com/avenza-maps/> recommended by the USGS
    <https://www.paper-maps.com/> works with any number of georeferenced PDFs
    etc.

    All those apps, unfortunately, incorporate GSF into them, where my first of
    two questions for this thread is whether or not GSF is in any iOS app?

    Do those three apps have GSF included into them for the iOS platform?
    If not, how can you tell for sure that they don't have GSF in them?

    When using a FOSS Google Play Store search, you can easily filter out any
    apps which have the GSF (Google Services Framework) Google "spyware" in it.
    <https://i.postimg.cc/Jh8fJ9C7/gsf01.jpg> map apps with gsf

    But that spyware filter doesn't exist in the Apple app store settings.

    Maybe it's as simple as GSF isn't in any iOS apps (which I'm sure the
    iKooks will claim without backing it up so their claim is meaningless).

    But maybe that's the case.
    I do not know if GSF is incorporated into Google (or any) iOS apps.
    Do you know?

    If you're an iKook always trying to defend Apple to the death using your
    seven kindergarten excuses, please refrain from adding your garbage here
    as I'm trying to help everyone answer two simple questions about privacy.

    Q1: Do iOS apps incorporate the Google GSF (or equivalent) from Google?
    Q2: How do you know and how can you tell when you install any given app?
    --
    Posted out of the goodness of my heart to disseminate useful information
    which, in this case, is to help all of us learn more about google spyware.

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jan 16 12:21:35 2023
    In article <tq3uni$1a92$[email protected]>, Andy Burnelli
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Q1: Do iOS apps incorporate the Google GSF (or equivalent) from Google?

    parts of it can be.

    Q2: How do you know

    because i've written ios apps and know what's available.

    and how can you tell when you install any given app?

    you don't when it's installed unless it's disclosed by the developer,
    which it almost certainly won't be beyond something generic such as
    'collects analytics', which isn't necessarily using a google framework.

    however, it's possible in other ways.


    I do not know if GSF is incorporated into Google (or any) iOS apps.

    there's a lot you don't know.

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  • From Andy Burnelli@21:1/5 to nospam on Mon Jan 16 20:20:26 2023
    nospam wrote: b

    I do not know if GSF is incorporated into Google (or any) iOS apps.

    there's a lot you don't know.

    Hi nospam,

    That was your classic iKook response.

    I put this at top because I'm well educated and not of low IQ which means I
    am well aware that I don't know everything (not even close!), yet, you,
    nospam, being almost completely uneducated & low IQ, think you know it all.

    *I can (very easily!) admit if/when I don't know something.*

    You have been told your whole life that you're stupid, so your self esteem
    is as fragile as the lies you spin in your kindergarten defenses of Apple.

    *You can't*

    Worse.... you are sooooo happppy to gloat when someone says they don't know something... expressly _because_ you've been called stupid your whole life.

    *You're a product of your low IQ & your lack of formal education*, nospam.

    Rather than continue to pollute this post by responding to your base kindergarten taunts, I'll respond to your other comments separately.

    The only reason I wrote back on your kindergarten taunts is that I have two goals on this newsgroup, one of which is to learn but the other of which is
    to show you strange abnormal child-like iKooks for what you truly are.

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