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I bought a pixel from a german carrier in germany and installed GrapheneOS on it and this 'app' is still installed.
Then don't pay over time if you don't like not owning the device.
If you don’t control it, you don’t own it.
Which is why I bought my phone. See, my pixel doesn't have remote management. Shocking how that works when you don't choose to rent the phone.
You’re not getting it. Again:
If you don’t control it, you don’t own it.
Buying something no longer means you control it. You might have bought an Amazon Ring doorbell but if Amazon does not like your behavior they can (and will) render it dysfunctional.
If you don’t control it, you don’t own it.
Ah magical slippery slope stuff any another product 🙄👌👍
No amount of money you pay for your phone up-front will make that malicious code magically go away. You can pay cash, and you can even tip the seller. The code that reduces your control remains in that device. If you don’t control it, you don’t own it.
Lolol, nobody is using the API on my phone. Its existence doesn't harm me in the last bit. You should stop using Linux if the existence of remote management bothers you.
You’re very trusting of your corporate overlords.
I also paid full price and bought it from an official store with no connection to any carriers. Installed grapheneos and can confirm it is still present, whether anyone can use it is not is irrelevant if your putting shit in my phone that could potentially harm me. And you seem to take some kind of weird moral ground thinking people who default on a payment can have their phone which is a necessity in this era, turn into a brick if they choose to. You're lucky you can afford to but be more empathetic to those who can't.
Nobody needs a pixel. There are plenty of phones far more inexpensive than pixels lol. I NEED A PIXEL TO LIVE!
Dude, he bought a full priced phone and the distributor preinstalled ransomeware on it.
If you think this is acceptable just say it: "Distributors reserve the right to install ransomeware on the devices they sell."
Just say that.
Who's taking about pixel mate? We are taking about android here. Not the hardware but the simple fact that a device I paid for has harmful shit I didn't ask for. Pixel or whatever, this shouldn't be installed on anything period