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Re:F-Droid: Android FOSS app store by csdvrx on Sunday October 22, 2023 @05:19PM (#37979185)
> cheap chinesium has other tracking/spying nonsense built in at levels lower than the android os,

I have only found apps calling home.

If you think some malware is baked into the wifi firmware, I can't disprove that.

> I think that's much less likely on pixel devices, especially with the grapheneos guys watching those devices.

More eyeballs is better, but if we're talking about malware in the wifi firmware, I don't think graphene team can catch that either.

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Re:F-Droid: Android FOSS app store by snapplebobapple on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:41AM (#38025386)
I would expect someone serious about this to have their spyware built to use the cellular to send the low bandwidth, high value stuff and then possibly wifi for larger data dumps.
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