Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.
  • mang0@lemmy.zipEnglish
    252·
    5 months ago

    The website which wants to sell your data to hundreds of “partners” pretends to be concerned about your privacy.

    • Havatra@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      If it has the potential to generate clicks and revenue: Print it! /s

      But I’m happy that they at least contribute to the awareness.

  • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    5 months ago

    Senior security writer uses adb shell command he doesn’t understand to do something to a package he doesn’t know is or isn’t on his phone.

    Uh. OK.

    Anyway.

    I have 2 devices one on android 13 and one on grapheneos. Neither has Gemini.

    To check for Gemini:

    adb shell pm list packages bard

    and since I don’t know if it’s a regular apk or not:

    adb shell pm list packages --apex-only bard

    To be super sure, I also checked using shell commands device_config list and getprop, and grep for strings including: gemini, bard, smart, ai, model, and personal(ize/ation)

    eg adb shell device_config list | grep --color -i smart

  • Geodad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    5 months ago

    If you’re not running a degoogled ROM, you need to install one.

    • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Doing that becomes harder and harder as time goes by. When I was shopping for a new Android phone I couldn’t find one that was recent enough and also had custom rom support of any kind. I know there are smartphones specifically built to be friendly towards custom roms and Linux but those are only available in Europe and North America.

      • Geodad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        At that point, I would root it and rip the goodle shit out, then install MicroG.

      • Ollie@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        is there any way to set up microg without rooting or unlocking my bootloader? could i do something with shizuku?

        my last phone i woulda rooted without a question but i have my reasons to keep this one vanilla (its a samsung)

        • Coelacanthus@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          If you want to use microG as GMS replacement, it’s impossible to do it without rooting. When application access GMS API, it will check the signature of GMS, so microG need some patch (Some ROM include it, like Lineage OS) or hook (e.g. via Xposed, like FakeGapps module) on system framework to return a fake signature for such a query.