Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos
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Why are you linking to a known Nazi website?
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Can you share a summary or a screenshot to make it more accessible please?
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Waydroid?
To be clear, I haven't used it at all and have no idea how well it works.
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....this link is about Safety core. Which weather app?
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You can't export your MFA? Aegis for example allows this.
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I went to it on the Okay Store and uninstalled it. It didn't commission and so far all phone functionality is working funny. It seems like an addon that's not tightly bound to core OS components.
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I understand, I was in exactly the same position. Then my battery swelled and wouldn't hold a charge at all, so I couldn't restore anything anyway, and my last backup was inaccessible (I know I know, test your backups, but like I started this post with I'm in the same boat of all work and no time for me).
Losing everything was remarkably freeing. Just switch all your 2FA to Aegis as has been suggested, and save anything you want to back up over the wire, then take the plunge. You won't regret the switch
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Pixel 7a here, it was installed and I have no idea when
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Thank you for sharing!
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Incidentally, Aurora Store is unable to find this particular app.
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I gave it a run on Ubuntu touch with a fair phone like 8 months ago... It was still pretty rough then.
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And what exactly does the github App do?
Is suppose it's not the same as the Google App?
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Thanks for the link, this is impressive because this really has all the trait of spyware; apparently it installs without asking for permission ?
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This is EXACTLY what Apple tried to do with their on-device CSAM detection, it had a ridiculous amount of safeties to protect people’s privacy and still it got shouted down
I’m interested in seeing what happens when Holy Google, for which most nerds have a blind spot, does the exact same thing
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Though just not using it makes no difference. You need to remove Play Store and Play services to orevent them from tracking you and managing your apps.
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Overall, I think this needs to be done by a neutral 3rd party. I just have no idea how such a 3rd party could stay neutral. Some with social media content moderation.
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It doesn't do anything. The only reason to consider installing it is that this is cryptographically signed by another developer, so if Google tries to install safety core again, it will fail because googled signature is different. It also has a super high version number, so that Google hopefully will not think to try to install the software.
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Well yeah, any part of the os has the capability to spy.
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Yup, heard about it a week or two ago. Found it installed on my Samsung phone, it never asked for permissions or gave any info that it was added to my phone.
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What do you mean by that? What I meant is that the capabilities and permissions it has could enable it to do so.
