Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remote maintenance

Re:Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remo... by kelnos on Friday August 16, 2024 @04:23AM (#41264358)

Can confirm it's on my Pixel 8:

    shiba:/ $ pm list packages -a -f
    ...
    package:/product/priv-app/Showcase/Showcase.apk=com.customermobile.preload.vzw
    ...

Gross. I have zero relationship with Verizon and yet this garbage is on my phone.

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Re:Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remo... by eythian on Friday August 16, 2024 @04:39AM (#41264465)

Verizon is prone to overstepping with Pixels. I couldn't tether my phone with my carrier (from a country that doesn't have Verizon anywhere near it) because they happened to use the same SIM ID (or something, I'm not sure of the details), and when I tried my phone would reach out to Verizon to see if I was allowed to, it didn't know who I was and said no, so I couldn't tether my phone.

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Re:Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remo... by rsynnott on Friday August 16, 2024 @05:00AM (#41264552)

Vodafone? They used to own a ~controlling interest in Verizon, and it wouldn’t be at all surprising if they shared that sort of thing, as _ordinarily_ it wouldn’t matter.

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Re:Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remo... by eythian on Friday August 16, 2024 @09:20AM (#41266186)

Vodafone, but in NL. You might be on to something there.

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Re:Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remo... by fersarr on Friday August 16, 2024 @04:28AM (#41264395)

probably phones outside the US also got polluted with this...

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Re:Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remo... by madiele on Friday August 16, 2024 @12:47PM (#41268053)

I'm in Italy and my pixel 8 pro bough from Amazon has it, so yes, seems to be in all of them

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