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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by MisterFrog@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 months ago

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

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

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

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

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

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

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

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

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

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yet he still qualifies that statement:

Children: Humans up to age 12 or 13 are children. After that, they become adolescents or teenagers

link to his current site. scroll down to children

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Sure. The only "blanket" statements I'm willing to give are limited to his work on Free Software. His statements on pretty much everything else should probably just be ignored.

[-] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

Not that it excuses his behavior but isn't he on the autism spectrum? People on the spectrum sometimes have no filter and are very literal. Like saying a 13 year old is more adolescent than child.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

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

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml -1 points 8 months 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

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago
[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yet he still qualifies that statement:

Children: Humans up to age 12 or 13 are children. After that, they become adolescents or teenagers

link to his current site. scroll down to children

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