Mishaal Rahman: Google Play Protect will apparently soon perform real-time threat detection for newly installed "unknown" apps...
I can't even get too mad at this, it makes complete sense for an OS to have built-in malware scanning because casual users will unintentionally install dodgy shit. The key thing is that those of us who don't want Google having a nosey through our device can still disable it trivially, because if that option goes then suddenly we're as bad as Windows!
You can't even truly disable it currently.
I've turned it off everywhere, every few days it still pops up and says it disabled an app. And that's the current iteration.
I'll let you guys know if they block newpipe, the YouTube alternative that blocks ads and their tracking.
Wasn’t that already there case? What’s changing?
The rest of the tweet didn't make the title but it sounds like it will automatically scan locally instead of prompting to upload.
Oh I got it. I’m still stuck in the time when tweets had 140 characters, so I didn’t think there was more text 😆
hope this doesn't cause massive battery drain ::: spoiler spoiler (it absolutely will) :::