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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 21:00:06 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation

The burden of catching malware or adware should not be placed on the consumer. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/one-down-many-go-pre-installed-malware-android
In conversation about 6 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. One Down, Many to Go with Pre-Installed Malware on Android
  
  from Alexis Hancock
  
  Last year, we investigated a Dragon Touch children’s tablet (KidzPad Y88X 10) and confirmed that it was linked to a string of fully compromised Android TV Boxes that also had multiple reports of malware, adware, and a sketchy firmware update channel. Since then, Google has taken the (now former)...
- Patrick Leavy (patrickleavy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 09:58:27 UTC Patrick Leavy
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  @eff good article.
  But what about the apps that #Google pre-installs on Android? We can't uninstall them, and you can't even sign out of the rest if you just need one of them (if you sign out of the YouTube app it signs you out of ALL Google services).
  My views have hardened after researching #surveillancecapitalism and I now consider all of Google's apps to be #adware / #spyware.
  Is there anything that can be done about this?
  
  In conversation about 6 months ago permalink

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