Poor Brits! First they lose the commonwealth, then are under the thumb of the US and now that! Should learn from the Romans how to see a big empire vanish and still make good pasta. ;)
Huawei still hast Google’s shit, tho, right? So they still spie on you.
You can nuke Google and Yandex or whatever stuff easily, with the help of a computer. There is no mysterious sentient auto activation or voodoo black magic. Use firewalling and disable programs and their internal permissions using Shizuku based app (AppOps) and ADB commands.
https://teddit.net/r/privatelife/comments/rohq46/100_foss_smartphone_hardening_nonroot_guide_40/ or https://lemmy.ml/post/128747
Much obliged!
They do. Source: using a Huawei phone right now.
It also has a bunch of Yandex stuff, since Russian government demanded it, so I’m getting spied at by both yanks and locals
I wonder what those backdoors exactly are, whether they can be mitigated by installing a different OS, or they are present too on phones like the PinePhone or the Fairphone, which are notably pretty ethical regarding their business practices…
