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Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos (www.forbes.com)
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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.”

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The Firefox Phone should've been a real contender. I just want a browser in my pocket that takes good pictures and plays podcasts.

[–] StefanT@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately Mozilla is going the enshittification route more and more. Or good in this case that the Firefox Phone did not take of.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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?

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I'm sticking with Gecko for sure. Trying out Waterfox over the weekend on desktop, and Fennec F-Droid on my phone.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

cromite for chrome, and ironfox for firefox?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

too bad firefox is going through the way like google, they are updating thier privacy terms of usage.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. I'm furious at Mozilla right now. But when the Firefox Phone was in development, they were one of the web's heroes.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

it says its only for LLM? as long as they dont try to expand the "privacy" in any case i download alternatives to the browsers anyways.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm mostly just frustrated that the best option has now become merely the lesser evil.