I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they’re on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can’t be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?

Edit 2: I bought my Pixel 6 phone outright, directly from Google’s Australian store. I have no creditors.

Were the courts not enough control for creditors? Since when are they allowed to lock you out of your purchased property without a court order?

I don’t even live in the US, so what the actual fuck?

Edit 1: You can check it’s installed (stock Pixel 6 android 14) Settings > Apps > All Apps > three dot menu, Show system > search “DeviceLockController”.

I highly recommend getting NetGuard, you can enable pro features via their website if you have the APK for as low as 0.10€, but donate more, because it’s amazing. You can also purchase via Google Play store.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    01·
    4 months ago

    People laughed at Stallman, too. But I’m not comparing you to him. He’s apparently a real POS.

    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      2·
      4 months ago

      Nah, he’s difficult to work with for sure, and rather extremist, but unfortunately he is a lot of right on the money. I wouldn’t call that a pos

      • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        4 months ago

        most of this “he’s a pos” comes from the misconceptions about him. he has a certain fixation to the vocabulary, and he often corrects others for it. then those people take the “attempt to correct” as “support” for the debate itself.

        • billgamesh@lemmy.ml
          11·
          4 months ago

          I think this is an extremely generous take. For anyone not in the loop, he gets called POS for famously weighing in on discussions of pedophelia by saying children 13+ aren’t children so it’s not pedophelia.

          I think this goes beyond being bad at knowing when to correct semantics

            • billgamesh@lemmy.ml
              0·
              4 months ago

              I do too, but I think being that tone deaf after being called out says a lot, and I think it’s pretty good reason to not make blanket endorsements for his statements/beliefs

              • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                1·
                4 months ago

                he wasn’t tone dead in that case you mentioned. he has since changed his thoughts about it.

                Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

                Through personal conversations in recent years, I’ve learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why

          • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
            2·
            4 months ago

            I think that even that is more bad phrasing on his end than him being a pedophile. Beyond weird opinions, there is no evidence at all that he is a pedo

            • billgamesh@lemmy.ml
              11·
              4 months ago

              But there is evidence that he defends it, and that he refused to back down after being called out. He is not a good person to look up to, and willfully makes harmful public statements, and willfully stabds by them. In other words, kinda a POS

          • Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            4 months ago

            Not that it excuses his behavior but isn’t he on the autism spectrum? People on the spectrum sometimes have no filter and are very literal. Like saying a 13 year old is more adolescent than child.