Hi, I recently have started caring less about privacy and fell for convenience as I installed and started using Google and Huawei apps and services on my phone.
I am not sure what shifted my mind, I no longer feel like the companies are up to no good and that they spy on me in particular in harmful way. This might be because my mental illness has gotten better, which made me paranoid with some other things too.
Wanted to hear your thoughts regarding this decision and privacy, free software and mass surveillance. Am I being a fool “giving up” ? I know its important that journalists and politicians have privacy, but does it matter to me that I’m no longer sure of.
Update: I did not feel good with so many apps relaying on cloud and how invasive they were connecting to google account, I went back to more private setup by removing gapps. However I kept some proprietary apps like Google translate and text-to-speech and Huawei health, those apps seem to work fine with revoked internet access, only negative is HMS(huwei mobile services) said it does wifi scanning and it was not possible to disable (unless revoking internet disabled it). Also I wonder how dangerous is Phone permission…