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Perhaps I should restate.

I know google owns youtube and all the rest. I know they track everything and anything anyone does via any google service, but agreeing to let them track my phone usage via android is not acceptable.

It appears the TOS agreement is for everything, not just the required gmail account but also for the actual phone usage? Its not very clear and I''ll be darned if I'm going to knowingly allow any monster to track data that is so specific.

Forgive me while I try to protect what little privacy I have left.

SOAB
 
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Perhaps I should restate.

I know google owns youtube and all the rest. I know they track everything and anything anyone does via any google service, but agreeing to let them track my phone usage via android is not acceptable.

It appears the TOS agreement is for everything, not just the required gmail account but also for the actual phone usage? Its not very clear and I''ll be darned if I'm going to knowingly allow any monster to track data that is so specific.

Forgive me while I try to protect what little privacy I have left.

SOAB

Sounds like you shouldnt have a smartphone then, and also no internet or anything then.
 
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Form the lack of useful answers I'll assume there is no work-around.

I'm glad I'm not part of the generation that so happily gives up everything just to have the next new gadget.

you can probably find an .apk for flash floating around and install it with a file manager. you do not need to be rooted for that.

or you can root your phone.
 
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I think Mikestony posted a link to a mobile flash player archive where you can d/l it.
Or else d/l a custom rom and pull the flash.apk from that.
Place on your sd-card, remember to check unknown sources in your application menu and side load from your sd-card.

Personally saying you're not part of a generation shows some ignorance, as there are people of many generations using smartphones.
With any contract or agreement you sign something away. Phone, pc or whatever has an internet connection, and some sort of ecosystem, is gonna be drawing information from you knowingly or not. I'm glad that google expressly state it in their T&C whereas other companies might cloak it in jargon or what not.
The all in one thing was done a few months back and fair warning was given then. It was done to avoid repetition of T&C across their services. I did read the majority of them both before and after the revision. Nothing changed, just uncluttered.

Get an iphone or windows phone and you'll be entering into exactly the same situation even if you think otherwise.
The good thing with android is you're not forced to live exclusively within their ecosystem, as ocn pointed out above. Side loading from sd-cards and third party markets is a possibility, though risky sometimes.
 
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I think Mikestony posted a link to a mobile flash player archive where you can d/l it.
Or else d/l a custom rom and pull the flash.apk from that.
Place on your sd-card, remember to check unknown sources in your application menu and side load from your sd-card.
Eh, I dont think that was me robo :p Not clear what a mobile flash player even is lol.... Could you expand on that? :)
 
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Eh, I dont think that was me robo :p Not clear what a mobile flash player even is lol.... Could you expand on that? :)

Watching vids from a web browser requires flash! You got it on your pc, and also on android, although adobe have stopped providing support from 4.0 upwards.
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html

Here is the archive scroll down to the android versions and d/l the latest. If you need any more help in installing it post back here.
 
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Watching vids from a web browser requires flash! You got it on your pc, and also on android, although adobe have stopped providing support from 4.0 upwards.
Archived Flash Player versions

Here is the archive scroll down to the android versions and d/l the latest. If you need any more help in installing it post back here.

I gotcha, thought it was something other than that , that would help the op get around the "I'm tracking you" issue. But how would an archived version of Adobe vs. what youtube wanted him to flash, help.

I think I might be a little confused....I thought the o.p. doesn't want his usage/data/etc to be tracked by anyone like google.
 
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Frankly, I dont fancy myself to be interesting enough to be tracked in any sort of meaningful way. Sure, they'll gain a few more bucks by being able to display more relevant ads, but other than that Google doesnt care.


You're living an illusion if you don't think everything that goes through the air is monitored/screened. Smartphone or not.
 
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