This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone.

[octoblade@lemmynsfw.com]

Laughs in GrapheneOS and/or phone running Linux.

[pullpantsunsworn@lemmy.ml]

Your dumb phone is much insecure than a smartphone which has GrapheneOS or LineageOS. Your dumb phone certainly lacks secure 4G or 5G communication, cannot use e2e encrypted messaging platforms and cannot update firmware in case of security bugs.

[greenappletree@lemmy.world]

Same phone, same OS. Try going to the last link from the post. That'll take you to the Store page. If it says "uninstall" then you didn't look hard enough. (Neither did I, tbh. I forgot to hit "show system apps")

[ultimate@lemm.ee]

Laughs in CalyxOS. Muhahha.

[greenappletree@lemmy.world]

Unfortunately not. Showed up on my 14

[carl@lemm.ee]

tfw I've never been warned about nudes in my text messages

[silentknightowl@slrpnk.net]

If you're using Google messages, they're definitely already doing so

[dreamlandlividity@lemmy.world]

Honestly, if the app was open-source so we can check it does not leak data, I would probably have no issue with it.

Making it a separate app makes sense if google wants to allow other apps to re-use the code. No reason to have the same functionality bundled into each app separately.

And the feature, as long as it is configurable, seems useful.

The auto-install is bad but understandable. As far as I am aware, there isn't and easy way to mark an app as a dependency of another app so it gets automatically installed only when needed. This should be fixed but auto-install for all is not terrible temporary solution. This does not apply when the app is closed source and may steal your data.

[tidesphere@lemmy.world]

Doesn't appear to be on my phone or in the Google play store

[korhaka@sopuli.xyz]

Why would I need any of that, its only used for calls or SMS when I am out of the house. Anything important I can do on Linux.

[biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works]

If I had a nickel for every time I reported a pervy corporation to the ACCC, I’d have two nickels– which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works]

It also showed up on my android 11 Reno z

[kbobabob@lemmy.world]

Good ole Phineas and Ferb

[rubberelectrons@lemmy.world]

There's dozens of us.

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

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[onyxjet@lemmy.world]

That's a mistake on my end. Feel free to cross post it there or share if if you want.

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Ot did on my phone (Ger Pixel 7 Pro)

[dion_starfire@lemm.ee]

Do you have Google's Messages app installed? If it actually does what they claim on the tin, maybe it was only installed on phones with the Messages app installed?

[lumiluz@slrpnk.net]

I don't, so maybe that's the reason?

[benjaben@lemmy.world]

Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea. Removed it and left a review complaining.