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“It’s a lot worse than any of the mainstream browsers I have seen,” It's a lot worse than Chrome ? The Xiaomi browser tracks your browsing. The Google browser in combination with the most of the sites in the internet track your browsing, your location, and a lot of other things. Choosing the lesser evil is quite popular now days, and it's obvious which one it is.
Just wait till they: - start encrypting all the data they collect (with real encryption, not base64 encoding) - saving up the data for hours or days at time and sending it in bursts (so there is no immediate connection to a remote server) - sending the data to plausible U.S.-registered domains (rather than to Singapore and Russia) - monitoring at the kernel or firmware level so that it doesn't matter what browser or…
profit!!!
your way is so much more work...
Before you go shaming those bad, bad Chinese companies, imagine my surprise when I restored my Apple iPhone from iCloud only to find my (always set to private!) Safari back there with every tab I ever opened.
I sincerely doubt the veracity of your claim.
Just wait till they: - start encrypting all the data they collect (with real encryption, not base64 encoding) - saving up the data for hours or days at time and sending it in bursts (so there is no immediate connection to a remote server) - sending the data to plausible U.S.-registered domains (rather than to Singapore and Russia) - monitoring at the kernel or firmware level so that it doesn't matter what browser or…
Serious note - welcome to the future. Nothing is private anymore.
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Other than the tracking, would you recommend it? Is LineageOS available? I've been curious about trying a Chinese phone for a while, but would only do it if Lineage is available, since I'm annoyed by anything more busy than stock Android.
I have lineage on my xiaomi. The bootloader is locked by default but if you ask for it to be unlocked they will do it. The process is intentionally manual to prevent hacking, but ultimately smooth.
Not only you need a Windows computer to unlock, but then it takes literally months to proceed and if you happen to do something that you're not told you should not do (like logging out or re-trying to unlock), the counter is reset and you have to wait even more. Plus the unlocking program on Windows randomly doesn't work and error messages are not helpful at all.
My Xiaomi is an impressive, nice and powerful phone that hasn't cost much. But it was so much pain to root that I won't probably ever buy a phone from them in the future.
Just wait till they: - start encrypting all the data they collect (with real encryption, not base64 encoding) - saving up the data for hours or days at time and sending it in bursts (so there is no immediate connection to a remote server) - sending the data to plausible U.S.-registered domains (rather than to Singapore and Russia) - monitoring at the kernel or firmware level so that it doesn't matter what browser or…
Need to add anti-reverse-engineering techniques - obfuscation, self-modifying code, custom and hard to reason about embedded VMs, etc. other than anti-debugger and test harness detection. I think earlier on.
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This is why I root my device and only allow apps I trust internet access.
Doesn't that permanently disable some features on Samsung? I read they use a goddamn eFuse for it
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my brain's classifier would predict upon hearing just huevos => mexican spanish. i'd imagine southern cone speakers would say pelotas, but might be way off here.
That's pretty much spot on (more generally, I think it's a Central-American thing). Either "pelotas" or "bolas" are the common ones in South America (huevos is present, but rarely used in the same way—"huevón" is the classic insult used throughout).