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[-] HidingCat@kbin.social 69 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] HidingCat@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] msage@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

My friend had one, and Instagram would often pop it out and back in quickly. That was way back when though.

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