pls post at least 1 paragraph of the article into the post body, to get a quick overview what it’s about.
I think it can be removed, at least for my phone, in the settings > Google or just use adb.
If they really care about users’ security, they should make Graphene OS’s GMSCompact and explicit permissions the new standard instead of restricting what apps can they use and forcing invasive system apps. And centralized censorship and requiring an account is not what makes apps secure. Source available and reproducible build is.
just hoping my current phone survives ling ebough that my next one can be a linux phone
Meanwhile, in 2357 AD…
hey folks i got graphene, do i need to worry about this or is this what the sandbox is for?
Google cannot install apps in Graphene without explicit, app by app permission (due to the sandboxes Google play). We are safe
Apple already uses machine vision for photo searching, that weird auto categorization it does and such. They have for years.
I would bet the photos app already classifies nudes, but silenty, mostly so it doesnt add your nudes to an auto album.
what the fuck? I had no idea about this. I never opted into this.
No shit. The billionaires at the top worry about public safety, would you believe it? (giant fucking sarcasm tag goes here for all my asperger ftiends)
Who owns the (fully paid up) phone that’s in my hands right now? I try to tell myself I do, but…
Yea, I am not a happy camper.
You can uninstall it and install this so that Google can’t get it back on your system.
kicks can
Won’t install for me
Uninstall the existing app first
Already did. Even rebooted to be safe.
Open an issue on GH
If we weren’t so fucking weak and unorganized, we’d be burning their companies and their homes to the fucking ground.
Thankfully, I switched to Droidian at the start of this year. I am NOT looking back.
Never heard of Droidian, but I’ve been loooking into the status of Linux phones lately. Mind giving a run down of your experience with it?
What phone do you have
Time to start shooting nudes on film I guess.
That does sound fun actually, maybe make a thing of it with some other women…
Sphynx cats trigger it and you get an unwarranted alert that Google is very disappointed.
Reportedly, the app uses an on-device machine learning model to classify the content.
Using your shiny new phone to train AI…
For now its only supposed to check Google Messages, so not if you use a different text app.
But one vulnerability already is side loaded versions with super high version numbers so they won’t be auto updated. Those will scan everything and do whatever with it. Considering the apps point is to scan for nudes, likely sending all your nudes to the hacker.
Reportedly, the app uses an on-device machine learning model to classify the content.
Using your shiny new phone to train AI…
I would think the models are already trained, and then deployed to phones to do on-device inference. The models should be fixed and static by the time they end up on a phone (in large part because phone hardware is just not technically suitable for training, whether pre training or post training).
For now its only supposed to check Google Messages, so not if you use a different text app.
Shameless plug for Textra as a much, much better alternative.
No RCS (not their fault, but still).
Does Textra support RCS?
The RCS interfaces (APIs) on Android are currently only available for Google internally to use, no other third party developer has access.
We are hopeful Google will make these RCS interfaces available in the near future to all developers (in the spirit of Android open source), so that Textra SMS can also offer RCS functionality.
TIL
The dummy version is an empty app.
Okay, thinking on this more, I have a very hot take here.
What’s the big deal?
Google is seemingly offering a locally processed machine vision API to other apps, as far as I tell. This might manifest as some messaging service nagging you if you try to send nudes to someone, or filtering porn out of a feed. Or other “safety” features I suppose, like classifying slur-laden messages as abusive.
…But Google was most certainly doing this with Google apps already. Like the stock photo library most apps use.
If people are already using unprivate services for this kind of thing, honestly, they were digging their own grave, and this hardly moves the needle. All it does is make the spying/censorship more apparent.
I say those users need a cold bucket of water to the face, and this may provide it.
…But otherwise, it wont affect apps that dont use the API, right?
I don’t want the infrastructure built and forced onto users, even if it’s supposedly for benevolent reasons.
Software forced on me should manage necessary services for the functionality that I bought the hardware for.
Forcing this functionality through my phone means you’re dedicating some of my phones compute, memory, and storage toward something I don’t want. I’m paying for it every time I charge my phone.
Not to mention the fact that the actor in question, Google, isn’t trusted. I don’t want to help them beta test their shit on my hardware. I don’t want to help them succeed in whatever vision they have for this things future. I don’t trust that it won’t eventually be used to infringe on me.
If I wanted this functionality, I’m sure I could have downloaded it. That option wasn’t given, though… so I have to wonder why. Why am I being forced to have this shit?
Not gonna lie, this is a great meme…
I did say it was a hot take. I am not caffeinated yet.
I’ve got a Pixel 9 I keep for development and uninstalled that system app a few months ago. It’s still gone. Maybe updates are reinstalling it but saying that it cannot be uninstalled or removed is a lie.
It says in the article title that it keeps reinstalling itself, not that it can’t be removed.
I removed it using Canta early on when I got my Pixel 9 and it hasn’t ever reinstalled itself in the year or so since I removed it.
Where’s the “android is more free than iOS” people now‽
Edit: Still salty I see (from the downvotes).
Read the article
Now Apple devices use a similar nudity-blur system called Communication Safety – it uses on-device machine learning to analyze potentially unsafe photo and video attachments and is enabled by default.
Apple has the exact same tech
Yes, but the android people are annoyed because they can’t remove it from their precious customizable OS.
Edit: there they are.
Android people are annoyed because it’s an invasion of their privacy. Apple people should be annoyed by this too. This isn’t a team game it’s a political issue.
Ok.
Edit: Nice. Downvotes for a one word answer.
Please go back to reddit
I don’t use any Google products or services but you’re completely insufferable lololol troll so funni
Ok.
I assume you can with LineageOS and GrapheneOS
Know what they say about assumptions.
Using GrapheneOS.
I’ll be switching to GrapheneOS myself soon.
Quick question: can I use the default camera that comes with Pixel on GrapheneOS? I’m going to be using a Pixel 7
Do you mean the Pixel Camera app? You can install that like a normal app from the Play Store. I’m using Open Camera instead though.
You can install that like a normal app from the Play Store.
Wait, you serious?
Losing camera functionality is really the only thing that’s been holding me back at this point!
Google/Pixel Camera is in the GrapheneOS App Store, you don’t even need the Play Store or Google account to install and use it
I mean, GrapheneOS comes with a stock camera app
The Pixel camera is different. It has features that I use regularly.
We’ve been quiet for years now. Google’s been on a path to turn Android into a locked down system for many years at this point.
It’s gonna be as bad as Apple soon.
Guy who is willfully ignorant:
Where‽
It is lol.
Guess again.
No, despite Google’s gradual loving down of Android, it’s still leagues ahead of Apple in terms of openness.
Edit: I meant “locking”, but the original is funnier
Open…… for now.
No, open forever. The core of android is open source. It’s the reason that projects like GrapheneOS exist.
Sure.
