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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by amatecha on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:59PM (#28792635)
"trying their absolute hardest to reduce the fingerprinting surface"... for anyone else :)
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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by ignoramous on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:13PM (#28792774)
Yes, they indeed are. Though, it could be argued that Google doesn't want anyone else fingerprinting 3B+ Android users other than themselves. Most of their apps ("gapps") are pre-installed with backdoor privileges that can bypass sandbox restrictions in-place for every other (non-OEM) app.
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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by magicalist on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:44PM (#28793074)
> Most of their apps ("gapps") are pre-installed with backdoor privileges that can bypass sandbox restrictions in-place for every other (non-OEM) app

Hadn't heard about this. Like what?

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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by ignoramous on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:01PM (#28793248)
See: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-play-services
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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by magicalist on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:52PM (#28794789)
Ah, I see, thanks. I thought you meant like gmail, not play services.
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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by hansel_der on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:49AM (#28797091)
i would be kind of surprised if the gmail-app didn't have more access than other email clients
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