For privacy-minded people, hardware switches are a nice thing. I remember when I had a Xiaomi Mi 9T with its popup camera, and it was interesting to see that some websites would trigger said popup camera. While the camera was never actually used, the thing would go up and down. This was even with an ad blocker installed.
I have a Mi 9 t pro. Never experienced anything like that.
While I do have hardened my settings, debloat with adb etc. privacy whise and use the EU MIUI rom.
Do you rememher said websites?
Man, it has been a while, as I don’t use the 9T as the daily phone now. I think I recall The Verge as one of the sites, because I wasn’t expecting it from them. It happened only a few times, and it wasn’t site-wide. Can’t remember which pages triggered it though.
No audio jack –> nope.
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Welcome to 2023, the 99% doesnt want them as cool as dangling cords are an all…
Your mistake is in thinking that representation in the media/web sphere = representation in the population. White I don’t know the numbers, I reckon that the percentage of the population that doesn’t want a headphone is less than half—possibly much less.
It’s now a fashion statement to have cordless white blobs in your ears. So cool.
Maybe, but for those who dont like looking like retards, thiers litterally every other earbud in existance.
You sound like somebody who doesn’t talk to people with green bubbles on iMessage.
Incorrect
It’s what you sound like
Only mic and camera? It should also turn off GPS, accelerometer, etc. Filming the inside of my pocket isn’t the biggest tracking concern. People are just afraid someone’s watching them masturbate all the time.
The article states that there is second switch to diaable wifi, data, gps etc that is essentially an airplane mode.
That’s only a soft switch. A compromised device could turn them back on.
Yeah a hard switch that switches in a dummy load instead of the antennas would be excellent
But it could hit battery life without also turning off the radios
Isn’t GPS just 3 sattelites passively shouting their clock to any who could listen? There’s no GPS kill switch because there’s nothing transmitted. WIFI kill switch is more understandable.
Your point is solid. But GPS position requires a signal from at least 3 satellites to work. There are a whole lot more than 3 in the sky.
Privacy isn’t just about your device not emitting signals… If you don’t want your device and apps to track your location, you also don’t want to receive those GPS signals.
I really like having the mic off so Google doesn’t try to sell me something I mentioned a private conversation
Like other phones, this most likely won’t have open source firmware.
What are you talking about? It’s using e/OS
i really don’t care about degoogling trusting some random ass company and their VPN.
I’d still prefer a Pixel running GrapheneOS with aggressively-restrictive permissions.
I’d also like the ability to use sandboxed Google services.
Does it have a hardware switch to prevent apps from taking screenshots? I hate so much that they can do it at any time without you ever knowing.
No 5G is a deal breaker for me.
You just get two COVID vaccinations instead, should kind of work the same
Where can I get more information? Is the software open sourced? Has it been independently audited?
Its /e/OS, a softfork of LineageOS, mostly superficial. Only GrapheneOS is extremely secure, although to be fair really degoogled LineageOS will probably be very nice too
although to be fair really degoogled LineageOS will probably be very nice too
Not by any technical standard. Unlocked bootloaders, security regressions, and user debug versions that are never deemed stable isnt really “nice”.
really degoogled LineageOS
Also called DivestOS
