Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos
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Per one tech forum this week: “Google has quietly installed an app on all Android devices called ‘Android System SafetyCore’. It claims to be a ‘security’ application, but whilst running in the background, it collects call logs, contacts, location, your microphone, and much more making this application ‘spyware’ and a HUGE privacy concern. It is strongly advised to uninstall this program if you can. To do this, navigate to 'Settings’ > 'Apps’, then delete the application.”
Basically, ot scans all files and shit like an antivirus does on windows? Oks
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Thanks. Uninstalled and reported. Hopefully they'll get the hint. I love my Android, but this is pushing me towards Graphene/Calyx.
they will probably hide it better, and make uninstallable in the future.
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Issue is, a certain cult (christian dominionists), with the help of many billionaires (including Muskrat) have installed a fucking dictator in the USA, who are doing their vow to "save every soul on Earth from hell". If you get a porn ban, it'll phone not only home, but directly to the FBI's new "moral police" unit.
the police of vice and virtue, just like SA has.
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Google did end up doing exactly that, and what happened was, predictably, people were falsely accused of child abuse and CSAM.
im not surprised if they are also using an AI, which is very error prone.
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Per one tech forum this week: “Google has quietly installed an app on all Android devices called ‘Android System SafetyCore’. It claims to be a ‘security’ application, but whilst running in the background, it collects call logs, contacts, location, your microphone, and much more making this application ‘spyware’ and a HUGE privacy concern. It is strongly advised to uninstall this program if you can. To do this, navigate to 'Settings’ > 'Apps’, then delete the application.”
Fuck these cunt
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how to freeze it on the app?
Using ADB:
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.safetycoreIf you have Shizuku and aShell/ShizuShell installed, then just run this command in aShell:
pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.safetycoreAlternatively, for a GUI method, setup Shizuku and then use an app like Hail or Ice Box
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Is there some good Chromium browser with hardware video decoder support and a working adblocker, that is not Brave? Or which Firefox fork is recommended?
cromite for chrome, and ironfox?
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I don't see it on the app store to remove anymore
You can't search for it. You have to open a direct link.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore
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You can freeze using ADB/Shizuku as well. No root needed.
If you freeze via non-room methods, updating the apk will re-enable it. So it's the same situation as just removing the apk--it'll basically re-enable itself.
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or just disable play store and use an alternative store like aurora.
Then it'll never get installed in the first place.
This is incorrect. It's installed silently via a background OTA. It's never installed purposefully through the google play store.
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How do you uninstall it?
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I didn't have it in my app drawer but once I went to this link, it showed as installed. I un-installed it ASAP.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore&hl=en-US
thank you for posting this. it's not yet installed on my phone for some reason, but i will be checking this page every couple days to make sure it stays that way.
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It doesn't show in the app drawer, but I found it via the all apps in Settings.
Go to the Settings App > Apps > "See all XX apps". It's called Android System SafetyCore, so it should be close to the top of the list. Tap on it and select Uninstall.
Well it looks like I don't have it. Which is good, unless its hidden and unremovable. My battery app reports up to like 60% of power usage but nothing else. That means that some stupid app in the background is running down my battery for no good reason.
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they will probably hide it better, and make uninstallable in the future.
Absolutely. It'll be part of a future "Google play services" update.
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I'd that what's killing my fucking battery like crazy lately?
Now that you say that, my battery was draining fast the past couple of weeks. It would last maybe a day. It lasts 2 days again now.
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If you freeze via non-room methods, updating the apk will re-enable it. So it's the same situation as just removing the apk--it'll basically re-enable itself.
I've never had an app frozen through ADB get auto-updated by the Play Store or Google Services and get re-enabled because of it. An app with an update available will even disappear from the Update list if disabled, and in order to update it you have to enable it first.
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Then I guess the better question is what do you use?
Wouldn’t it be a given that I don’t have an android phone?
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too bad firefox is going through the way like google, they are updating thier privacy terms of usage.
Yep. I'm furious at Mozilla right now. But when the Firefox Phone was in development, they were one of the web's heroes.
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Is there some good Chromium browser with hardware video decoder support and a working adblocker, that is not Brave? Or which Firefox fork is recommended?
I'm sticking with Gecko for sure. Trying out Waterfox over the weekend on desktop, and Fennec F-Droid on my phone.
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I've never had an app frozen through ADB get auto-updated by the Play Store or Google Services and get re-enabled because of it. An app with an update available will even disappear from the Update list if disabled, and in order to update it you have to enable it first.
Freezing an app in an non-root fashion doesn't do anything special. It's moved to a different location and is effectively "removed" from a runnable state. The OS shows it as disabled/removed, but the files are still there. Newer versions of android (14+) will recognize applications it thinks are necessary (like this one, from Google) are moved/disabled and will pull a new apk during the upgrade process. It effectively re-installs the app.
