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   Message 111,099 of 112,125   
   David Wade to Steve Hayes   
   Re: Google Android "DSID" cookie, Androi   
   11 Mar 25 10:25:11   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, uk.telecom.mobile   
   From: dave@g4ugm.invalid   
      
   On 11/03/2025 4:45, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 10:14:22 +0000, Jeff Layman    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Unfortunately, most people have a Google account and automatically log   
   >> on when they get a new phone (if for no other reason than to transfer   
   >> all their old phone info to the new one via a Google backup).   
   >   
   > One of the extremely annoying things I have found is linking of one's   
   > Gmail contacts to one's phone contacts. I don't like my phone contacts   
   > list being filled with people I am never likey to phone because I   
   > don't have phone numbers for them, only email addresses. So I delete   
   > them from my phone, and then when I want to email them from my   
   > computer I find their addreswses gone -- one reason why I hardly ever   
   > use Gmail any more, other than to give an address to people who want   
   > to spam me.   
   >   
   >   
      
   This annoyed me for a while, but I have got over it now. What does annoy   
   me is the fact that I know multiple people called "David Thomas" and it   
   keeps wanting merge them....   
      
   Dave   
      
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