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Low-cost Android phones ship with residential proxy malware
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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2026
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So...kinda like what apple and google are doing too 😁
Not to shill for Apple or Google, but it's definitely important to draw a distinction between first party telemetry and straight up distributing malware. If we can't we honest in our framing then there is really no reason to take what we have to say seriously.
While I wasn't 100% serious, I wasn't just joking either.
Sure there is a difference. But not a big one. Do you know what each android process actually does? And both can install any shit they want at any time. You can't even uninstall their store or apps.
To me personally, the difference is slim. And malware is malware, the difference often is just billions of dollars and doing it more or less on the open.
No, because Apple and Google aren’t providing third parties access to the Internet through your devices.
Makes me feel so much safer with google or Apple 😁 They could though. All the tech for it is there and already installed. And you wouldn't even know if they did, because you don't own your own phone.
Not that I wouldn't worry about an added layer of spy-shit though. The difference between that malware and the big malware it's installed on is just slim to me. I'm very security- and privacy-driven.
And the carrier too.
say the thing on the lemmy to get the points that don’t matter
As if I would care about that. This is not reddit.
So… android IS google, and Apple is not doing anything remotely close to this.
Android is google? You don't say? 😉
And Apple is doing the same shit as google. At least they never tried to hide it