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[–] PointlessLifePersonified@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Love the fact the article links directly to the solution. Thank you for this!

This event prompted the development of an empty app: a placeholder with the same name and a massively inflated version number, SafetyCore v2000000000. Users sideload it, so the Google Play Store can’t overwrite the app with the real SafetyCore.

Just make sure to read the GitHub page first as proper uninstallation of the original is essential.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago

Hopefully ythis gets added to F-Droid!

[–] zout@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for this!

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But the title says it can't be removed?

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The article adds more details by explaining the app keeps getting silently reinstalled

[–] refalo@programming.dev -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How would it be reinstalled if you can't uninstall it in the first place?

To me "can't remove" implies it cannot be uninstalled at all.

[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guess you could read the article to find out

[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

I was more complaining about the obviously-wrong title, because yes the article does explain how to uninstall it.

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago

So Google won't make APIs that allow developers access to RCS and therefore the ability to integrate it into third party messaging clients, but this is potentially kosher? Go fuck your hat Alphabet.

[–] motionofethre@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ttayh@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

primarily in newsletter emails and media reports rather than direct correspondence. A 2003 email shows Ghislaine Maxwell invited Sergey Brin to a dinner at Epstein's house, and Brin offered to bring Schmidt along. Most references are incidental mentions in tech industry news. No direct correspondence with Epstein has been documented.

This sounds like Chat Control, minus sending a report to interpol

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

ELI5, what are the downsides to installing the unofficial app?