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motivation to deGoogle: Creditors can lock your Android remotely if you are delinquent. (infosec.pub)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The technical mechanism:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.devicelock

update

To be clear, I am not the OP who experienced this problem. I just linked them from here.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Couldn't you just remove it with ADB?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Root or get out, I have been rooting since 2020 and I decide what the heck to do with my phone 😁

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I mean, the people this was targeted at were Kenyans who otherwise couldn't afford a phone, I don't think the people this applies to can afford to chose a phone model

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If I were to simultaneously demand:

a phone with a relatively non-evil brand (thus obscure), and
a rootable phone (thus a mainstream one)

that leaves me with no phone at all. Because only popular mainstream models get rooted and they’re all made by the worst companies.

When my current phone loses its usefulness I might even go without. Or possibly get one 2nd hand although the 2nd hand market still supports the 1st hand market.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You could use a FairPhone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I think Fairphone did not exist when I last bought a phone. But you make a good point; I overlooked that. It will probably be my next phone whenever I reach a point where open street maps no longer updates on my phone.

[–] cm0002 4 points 7 months ago

Iirc when this came up yesterday, it disables Developer tools when active

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I think someone mentioned this is in the Playstore services stuff that’s hardwired in to the platform. Which means if a device is unrooted you can possibly do: $ adb shell 'pm disable --user 13 com.google.android.gms'.