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Just kinda looks like California is the biggest farming state.

The bread basket of America's covered in that shit

SafetyNet is dead.

They rely on Play Integrity API.

That covers:

App Binary signatures App source corroboration - Was it actually installed from the Play Store? Android device attestation - Is it a genuine device powered by Google Play Services Malware detection - Google Play Protect is enabled and has not seen known malware signatures.

They can choose to ignore any number of those but they do not. It's part of their security reporting requirements to use attestation I expect.

Beyond that - a device that doesn't meet Play Integrity is more likely to be a malicious actor than it is to be a tech enthusiast with a rooted phone: One of them is far more prevalent than the other in terms of device usage.

Android apps are trivial to reverse engineer, inject code into and generally manipulate. That lets apps like ReVanced work the way they do... but that also means that blue team developers have a lot more work to do to protect app code.

Source - Android App Developer, worked on apps with high level security audits (like banking apps).

Pine phones have privacy but not functionality unfortunately.

GrapheneOS + Linux Is the only way to truly have digital privacy.

Most people think iPhone + Mac is. So, so wrong.

Don't entirely take it off: ad companies are as malevolent as you think. They're just not wiretapping you constantly.

There are plenty of easier ways to spy.

The point is that people are doing drugs on the street because the street is where they live.

If druggies have homes they do drugs at home.

It's great that you're focused in on privacy but that's not what's happening.

You can examine every byte of traffic off your phone. There isn't an open audio stream: it'd be too obvious. On phone analysis is too computationally intensive to be inobtrusive.

You're experiencing some combination of frequency illusion and priming when you experience these "phone listening in".

It is far more likely that you had seen the product advertised before but not consciously considered it (priming) followed by a discussion which made you more aware of it so you noticed the ads more (frequency bias).

The fact is companies don't even need to record your conversations to know how to get you to buy what they want you to buy.

It's not.

1. Battery consumption would be obvious
2. Network traffic would be obvious
3. That's not how app lifecycles work on phones: the only thing always ruining is the OS.

Source: professional app developer who has also worked for big G

Ah yes. Shitting in the streets. Classically a problem caused by drugs and definitely not anything else.

Good news! Because drugs are illegal now we don't have to build housing for the ever increasing homeless population!

Prove it

TIL ty

My knowledge of Spanish is only high school level and that was how it was taught.

And literally literally means figuratively.

A teaching my advanced linguistic classes drilled into me is "l'uso fa legge".

Or, translated, usage makes the rules.

No language is logical, and consensus is how language is derived.

Pedantry is never ingratiating.