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Privacy Advice Rendered on lemmy.ml: Get Xiaomi phone to degoogle (lemmy.ml)
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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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[โ€“] stm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And Apple was in prism since at least 2013. And if PRISM is outdated that only means "better" ones are in use. You sound to defend apple a lot.

My point is US hardware and companies are just as bad as Chinese ones. If it's officially mandated in China that show that China is just more transparent in surveliance than the US is.

I'd still use Xiaomi rather than Apple any day now if they are my only choices. I see Apple is shilled by lot's of people in privacy circles. Find it a bit sad.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 4 weeks ago

You're entitled to your opinion, but I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the issues here.

Chinese hardware level backdoors are vulnerabilities to be exploited anywhere you are on earth, and you ONLY have that issue alone if you flash a new ROM. Stock Xiaomi's OS MUI is definitely more riddled with CVEs that make it far less secure if you use the regular OS. Apple's security only relies on their proprietary lockdown of everything, which means no privacy guaranteed other than data encrypted at rest. They're both very bad options. Arguing about which is super bad terrible and only very bad terrible doesn't prevent you from choosing a bad option.