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How do I add wifi printer to T-Mobile router WITHOUT the invasive data mining of the T-Life app?
There is not a chance in any place in any afterlife I'm downloading or using the T-Life app, or any other app that insists on mining my contacts list. So, how do I go about adding my Canon TR-150 wireless printer to the T-Mobile router's wi-fi without the app?
You could also use a GrapheneOS device to make sure the app has none of the invasive permissions you are worried about. There is no way to do so without using the app unless you wanted to add a second router wired to the modem and connect it to that.
All of my devices besides the wi-fi printer in question run iOS or MacOS (not Windows, Google or whatever). That said up front, how do I go about adding a wi-fi printer to my T-Mobile Home Internet WITHOUT downloading and using their data mining tool they like to call "T-Mobile Life"? There's not a chance in any I'll allow T-Mobile access to my contacts.
Disgruntled T-Mob Customer wrote:
All of my devices besides the wi-fi printer in question run iOS or MacOS (not Windows, Google or whatever). That said up front, how do I go about adding a wi-fi printer to my T-Mobile Home Internet WITHOUT downloading and using their data mining tool they like to call "T-Mobile Life"? There's not a chance in any I'll allow T-Mobile access to my contacts.
You have to use the app if you want it to directly connect to the T-Mobile gateway via wireless. There is no other way unless you have a GrapheneOS device where those permissions can be rejected and the app fully sandboxed so even if you gave it contacts permissions, it wouldn't see them anyway.
So you don't trust iOS's security features? T-Life does not request permission to access Contacts.
iOS security is fine. Apple is a data mining company and monopoly in their own right though. There is a reason why GrapheneOS is the choice of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and others. I don't care about needing that level of control over my device but I do want reasonable control over my device, including the apps on it, their permissions, etc. With iOS, you have to jailbreak a device to remove a lot of the trash I don't allow on my devices and to have system level access to it. If I own it. I want to use it the way I want to. Not the way Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other platforms think is what I need while making more money off of data mining everything I do on it.
