September 23rd 2023.
Schmoog Will not Show Mail and Breaks Apps
Summary: Six months ago I went to a sufficiently distant location from my home and put a prepaid SIM-card into never previously anywhere connected smartphone, and pseudonymously activated the network and all the services needed and installed the Telegram app and signed up into Telegram network [*], which is the precondition to use it also on wire-connected desktop computer, which was my goal, but I left there and would not find time to do it in months.
Two days ago I finally found the time and went similarly away from my home, but I couldn't connect to "mobile data" network, to log in to Telegram with smartphone in the first place. I had to seek help from the info customer center of the SIM card network, and the engineers at the desk did connect after some difficulty and gave the right advice.
However, creating Proton Mail account in that time, to switch away from google hasn't been successful yet. I misremembered my username and couldn't log in. Having given the right email to Proton for recovery, which was google's mail created 6-months earlier, as recovery email, Proton would apparently send the necessary email, but google, who surely received it, would not show it to me. Upon my numerous tries google (the one of two other actors than myself, and I believe the network operator did not do it) disabled or broke the screenrecorder app (preinstalled in that smartphone) while I was recording on gmail.com with it, and possibly some other apps. Add to that how google cites the lack of GooglePlay app as their excuse to not send any emails that I tried to send from that pseudonymous account at theirs.
This case is one of surveillance accompanied by intrusion, just look up the exact network events documented.
These events happened in the span of some two days. Some events are documented in poor quality (with another shaky smartphone), some are documented in better quality (with screencasting internally and/or recording from another smartphone, fixed to a support).
Pseudonimity is not against the law in any democratic country. To the contrary privacy is every citizen's right, and most states, by their constitution, do not have the right to surveil you. Constitution of the Republic of Croatia guarantees privacy. And breaking, or be it just disabling, apps in a citizen's device, which most likely Google did to me, is definitely against the law.
Google good? Google does things automatically for everybody? C'mon, they treat me like dirt, and they do so with many others. You're their commodity, if they can make money from you, they'll treat you nice. It you speak of them what they really are, they treat you like enemy. Even if you simply don't like to be their commodity, and search for other options like Proton Mail, they'll treat you like an enemy.
And, not to forget to say the good thing, I successfully signed into my Telegram account from my computer, and I have been able to use it without much trouble. So far. Had Schmoogle known it was me from the start, I very likely wouldn't be able to do it. That's what I thought, but pls. see [**].
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