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Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 131 points 2 years ago (23 children)

This type of tech is already being put into vehicles as well. I used to get laughed at 20 years ago when I predicted this. Nobody is laughing anymore. If anything, they just accept it.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sigh. Way too much freeze in fight, flight or freeze...

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    your self driving car will just drive itself back to the lot when your payment is late

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  • [+] -14 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    People laughed at Stallman, too. But I'm not comparing you to him. He's apparently a real POS.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Nah, he's difficult to work with for sure, and rather extremist, but unfortunately he is a lot of right on the money. I wouldn't call that a pos

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    most of this "he's a pos" comes from the misconceptions about him. he has a certain fixation to the vocabulary, and he often corrects others for it. then those people take the "attempt to correct" as "support" for the debate itself.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    I think this is an extremely generous take. For anyone not in the loop, he gets called POS for famously weighing in on discussions of pedophelia by saying children 13+ aren't children so it's not pedophelia.

    I think this goes beyond being bad at knowing when to correct semantics

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Nah, I truly believe he is that awkward and tone-deaf.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I do too, but I think being that tone deaf after being called out says a lot, and I think it's pretty good reason to not make blanket endorsements for his statements/beliefs

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    he wasn't tone dead in that case you mentioned. he has since changed his thoughts about it.

    Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

    Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think that even that is more bad phrasing on his end than him being a pedophile. Beyond weird opinions, there is no evidence at all that he is a pedo

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    But there is evidence that he defends it, and that he refused to back down after being called out. He is not a good person to look up to, and willfully makes harmful public statements, and willfully stabds by them. In other words, kinda a POS

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