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Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Got a non-capitalist phone for me?

Sincerely as a hater...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Huawei is a employee owned and communist state backed company - not very capitalist, at least by comparison.

They're being hammered with export restrictions and sanctions and federal bans and executive orders to keep that from being a viable alternative in the US, but if you're outside that might be an option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Lol as if. It is owned by the trade union who workers are required to be a part of, but have 0 say in.

The "union officials" are not chosen by the workers, but by management who are chosen by their management and so on until the Chinese head trade union officials which are party men who, just like in the old soviet Union, are essentially the chinese bourgeoisie. It is essentially a fascist oligarchy which is the exact same as under capitalism, just a different structure and cover story.

The workers get 0 say and there is no evidence that they share in the profit either, and huawei does not deny that structure either.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/22/why-its-so-hard-to-know-who-owns-huawei/?guccounter=1

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

And yet when Huawei was flush with cash (after being forced to sell off assets destroyed by US sanctions) it distributed those billions in profits back to the employees.

It's not a worker cooperative, there are problems with it like any employee owned company, but don't be so cynical.