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    2111 months ago

    Material You is a privacy issue. It gives a reason for people to have a custom wallpaper.Because of the WallpaperColors API, any third party app can use the wallpaper to generate a unique ID based on that

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      1811 months ago

      Android really needs a sandbox feature for apps you don’t trust (or just any by Meta)

    • @[email protected]
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      711 months ago

      So it doesn’t simply supply the generated palette from the system? (I never tried implementing Material You)

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          111 months ago

          Ah alright, so it is a problem because it can be used as another bit of information to construct a more refined fingerprint of the user?

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            211 months ago

            Uhm… yeah…, sure, could certainly be another data point for that. I think you can also set static colora thought.

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              11 months ago

              Yes, though now that the option exists setting it to anything would discriminate you from the group that set it the other way, I assume that the OP also considered that as problematic

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                111 months ago

                I didn’t throw rocks at Material You for being an actual privacy leak but just thinking about the fact that it gives a reason for users to want to use a custom wallpaper instead of default or unicolor I woild have fell for it if I was not already aware of that WallpaperColors API

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        -111 months ago

        It does. But it also means that if you want to reset the tracking you would need (for every app) to also clear the storage of the app and logging off and log back in with a different account before starting to use the app again

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          111 months ago

          True, but even without your wallpaper fingerprint, the app is still fingerprinting you and tracking you with cookies.

          So that still always applies, material you just means you need to take the extra step of changing your wallpaper when you clean cache and change account.