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Privacy Advice Rendered on lemmy.ml: Get Xiaomi phone to degoogle (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by sunzu2@thebrainbin.org to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Of the largest android sellers, only samsung requires gplay. Xiaomi, vivo, oppo, realme, honor, are all chinese companies that require non-bundled google play for their domestic (and maybe other countries?) releases. Google can't alienate these sellers, and if they did, all of these companies would create their own AOSP fork (or just switch to HarmonyOS)

I recently bought a xiaomi android tablet that doesn't have google play services luckily.

Comrade dessalines, shilling chinese corpo slop instead of the standard open-source solutions.

Not very revolutionary!

While technically true, this feels malicious.

Let me swap the pedo king for shepooh!

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

I think it's sort of confirmed as conceptually possible. But that was also 10 years ago, and they're also in telco infrastructure, so they likely don't need more than a typical spyware no-click entry point.

Personally, I would never bother. It's not like the trade off is better equipment.