Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone - eviltoast

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?

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?

  • Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Of course, it was a lie since it’s still on Play Store an of today and in use.

    FWIW, I just searched it up and it’s listed as unavailable in my region (USA) 🤷‍♂️ so at the very least, they scoped it down a little bit

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      8 months ago

      Just because it’s not in the Playstore, doesn’t mean it’s not installed.

      It’s not listed in the Australian Playstore either, yet here we are with it making internet requests.

      It’s definitely installed.

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      8 months ago

      So they region locked it from US, but it can still be pre-installed as a system app from AOSP. And it’s available in EU, while was meant to be in Kenya only.