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.

  • Night Monkey
    1261·
    8 months ago

    This type of tech is already being put into vehicles as well. I used to get laughed at 20 years ago when I predicted this. Nobody is laughing anymore. If anything, they just accept it.

    • nymwit@lemm.ee
      9·
      8 months ago

      your self driving car will just drive itself back to the lot when your payment is late

      • Night Monkey
        11·
        8 months ago

        That’s cool. I was envisioning something even worse. Maybe in cahoots with the IRS they wait till you were also late on your taxes and did a double whammy

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      519·
      8 months ago

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

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
        192·
        8 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
          92·
          8 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
            104·
            8 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
                2·
                8 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
                  3·
                  8 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

                • sugar_in_your_tea
                  3·
                  8 months ago

                  Sure. The only “blanket” statements I’m willing to give are limited to his work on Free Software. His statements on pretty much everything else should probably just be ignored.

            • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
              3·
              8 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
                12·
                8 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
              3·
              8 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.

              • lad@programming.devEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                That’s an interesting read, and his views are more extreme than I thought. But I sort of agree that some unification of terminology and legislation would make situation better (maybe just not in a way he proposes). E.g. age of consent may differ by about 6 years in different places, that’s quite awful.