RIP Clipboard Managers: Android Q blocks background clipboard access

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-q-blocks-background-clipboard-access

#android #q #clipboard

John Wu @topjohnwu
Magisk Developer

https://mobile.twitter.com/topjohnwu/status/1105947979679191041

Bad news: Android Q root won't come anytime soon. Android Q has switched to logical partitions for the system block, which means there is no easy way to mount the block by any means. I'm currently thinking of what tricks can I do other than implement everything from scratch....

Things are not looking good 😅, even if I could, I might have to create a complete new Magisk just for Android Q. Android Q switched to this stupidly complicated logical device (device-mapper) + overlayfs madness just to support "Previewing GSIs" from data partition.

It will take me an extreme amount of time to figure out how to workaround all this mess. I won't expect Magisk to be even able to boot on Q in months.

After stepping back and taking a breath, I think I'll just have to figure out how to mount logical partitions and things should work. With normal EXT4 Android Q system images, things works just fine as previously demonstrated. Time to read some device-mapper documents...

#magisk #root #android #q

Here are the new Android Q features that Google announced

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-q-new-features

#android #q #features

https://twitter.com/topjohnwu/status/1106069688121847809


#nokang #nogoolag

Topjohnwu's root currently does not work on pixel and pixel XL as well as pixel 2 devices. The next build will

NSA-Skandal:
The Intercept closes Snowden archive and dismisses employees
The Intercept was founded to prepare the Snowden documents. Then the magazine expanded its focus. The NSA revelations should now be over.

US media company First Look Media closes its Snowden archive and dismisses employees to focus on "other editorial priorities". This reports The Daily Beast, citing an internal email from Michael Bloom, the company's chief executive. eBay's billion-dollar co-founder Pierre Omidyar founded First Look Media in 2013 and recruited Snowden's Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. They were asked to make the vast treasure trove of data available to the public through The Intercept magazine.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-poitras-sickened-by-layoffs-at-the-intercept

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/NSA-Skandal-The-Intercept-schliesst-Snowden-Archiv-und-entlaesst-Mitarbeiter-4335296.html


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#snowden #NSA #TheIntercept

Many journalists and whistleblowers argued against Snowden and The Intercept being a psychological operation since the begining

You have some talks about it here:

https://www.corbettreport.com/?s=Snowden

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#snowden #NSA #TheIntercept

Why in the USA Google and Co. now also advocate a national data protection law

Angered by the Cambridge-Analytica scandal and inspired by Europe, the American Congress takes a fresh look at a data protection law. Technology companies are also lobbying for such a law - for their own reasons.

For a long time the Americans smiled at the Europeans for how sensitive they were when it came to data protection - until an earthquake shook the USA a year ago: the analysis company Cambridge Analytica had gained unnoticed access to the data of 87 million Facebook users and fed Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign with this information. Although Facebook had known about the data abuse for months, it did not inform those affected until the New York Times reported on it in March 2018.

https://www.nzz.ch/international/amerika-versucht-sich-im-datenschutz-ld.1465593

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#USA #DeleteFacebook #Google #why #data #protection #law #EU

Save the Internet! Stop the censorship-machinery!

Almost 5 million votes were collected! This makes us the biggest petition in Europe and the biggest Change.org campaign in the world! The more people sign this petition, the more public pressure!

❗️Help us reach the 5 million mark, share this petition with other groups, your friends, your family, everyone you know!

We do not have much time left....

https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet

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#Uploadfilter #Artikel13 #NoUploadFilter #demo #CreateAwareness #getactive #SaveTheInternet #FreeSpeach

🎧 🇬🇧 Checking Out Online Shopping

When you shop, your data may be the most valuable thing for sale. This isn’t just true online — your data follows you into brick and mortar stores now as well. Manoush Zomorodi explores the hidden costs of shopping, online and off. Meet Meta Brown, a data scientist who unveils the information Amazon captures about you when you make an online purchase; Joseph Turow, who discusses how retailers are stripping us of our privacy; and Alana Semuels, who talks about becoming a hoarder with the advent of online shopping. Plus, learn about a college coffee shop where you can actually buy a drink with your data. (Is it worth it?)


📻 #IRL Online Life Is Real Life #Season4 #Episode1 #podcast #amazon #why
https://irlpodcast.org/

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📺 🇬🇧 Dreamers Dilemma

Enter the realm of dreams in virtual reality, where one person's dream can be shared and experienced by many with the help of technology. But when trailblazing a new virtual frontier, sometimes the dream of succeeding is what's most real.

📺 #VR #virtual #frontier Dreamers Dilemma #RedbullTV #video #podcast #doku #why
https://www.redbull.tv/video/AP-1MRD3NFBS1W11/dreamers-dilemma?playlist=playlists::b6486760-5e32-419c-8884-2da4f919ef94

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#Changelog :

1. Cleared last reported bugs (till morning)
2. Implemented doable suggestions

#Send me more bugs, beta builds -> clean install

Ad Tech Surveillance on the Public Sector Web

EU citizens being tracked on sensitive government sites
Even on government sites one is not safe from tracking by the advertising industry. According to a report by the Danish company Cookiebot with European Digital Rights (EDRi), 89 percent of all government sites in EU member states use cookies and other advertising trackers. Governments thus help the advertising industry to collect sensitive data about their citizens. According to the report, the website of the authorities with the most tracking cookies in Europe is a website of the Hamburg city government on parental leave and maternity protection.

https://www.ft.com/content/6dbacf74-471b-11e9-b168-96a37d002cd3

https://www.cookiebot.com/media/1121/cookiebot-report-2019-medium-size.pdf

📡 @NoGoolag
#surveillance #EU #citizens #government #why #pdf

One year in, Facebook’s big algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated — and very engaged! — News Feed

One year after Facbook's algorithm change, a report by NiemanLab shows that the change has led to the spread of split and emotionally charged content even faster. The key to this is a change that rewards "commitment", i.e. likes, shares and comments. The big beneficiary of the changes is the conservative channel Fox News, whose content on Facebook is more "engaging" than any other English-language news site. However, other factors can also play a role here, such as the fact that more older people are active on Facebook.
....(....)
In a farewell note after his departure from Facebook was announced yesterday, chief product officer Chris Cox said that “social media’s history is not yet written, and its effects are not neutral.” These lists would seem to back the idea Facebook’s effects are indeed not neutral.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2019/03/one-year-in-facebooks-big-algorithm-change-has-spurred-an-angry-fox-news-dominated-and-very-engaged-news-feed

The full report (Publishing on Facebook in 2019) is available for download here:
http://go.newswhip.com/rs/647-QQK-704/images/Facebook%20Publishing%202019_Final.pdf

#DeleteFacebook #algorithm #NewsFeed #FoxNews #why
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📺 🇬🇧 The Dirty TRUTH About Amazon's Empire
If you needed more proof Amazon is trying to take over the world, then their acquisition of the popular supermarket chain Whole Foods is a good sign.

It's also a sign that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' will extend his one-click tentacles into even more parts of our lives, a gut punch to your conscience when you realize that Amazon doesn't exactly have a great track record when it comes to valuing its employees. Remember that your ability to get your favorite face wash shipped to your house in 24 hours as you sit in your underwear comes at the price of an underpaid, overworked employee competing for a private space in a huge warehouse to cry during the workday.

📺 The #dirty #truth About #Amazon #Empire #why #video #podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2fxTISrJnU

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A way to programmatically disable the "Find my device" in gapps from being a device administrator

The trick is to disable gms - which clears device admin status, and then enable it again:

pm disable-user com.google.android.gms
pm enable com.google.android.gms

I know most of you don't have GApps at all on board, but still it might be useful to know.
Best is, to run the script at boot, with a delay - in order to kick in only after "Find my device" was reactivated and kill it for good.

#!/system/bin/sh

(
sleep 60
pm disable-user com.google.android.gms
pm enable com.google.android.gms
) &

Commands are in a backgrounded subshell in order not to delay boot.
Best way would be, to put it in your init.d, or execute it from Kernel Adiutor, or with Magisk boot hooks and put it in /data/adb/post-fs-data.d/.

Source, last (unvoted!) comment here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13911444/disable-deviceadmin-from-shell


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#find #findmydevice #disable #device #administrator #google #gms #script #shell #gapps

Most antivirus apps do absolutely nothing
Some of the Android apps in the Google Play store were so ineffective that they detected themselves as malware

Two thirds of Android antivirus apps that appear in the Google Play store provide no protection for devices, tests have revealed.

Researchers at the Austrian antivirus testing firm AV-Comparatives analysed 250 apps claiming to offer security for Android smartphones and tablets.

Their results found that less than a third of them managed to detect even 30 per cent of the malicious apps released in 2018, while 80 of the apps tested failed to meet the firm's most basic requirements for cyber security.

"Some of the Android security products in our test blocked so few of the malware samples – in some cases literally none – that they cannot reasonably be described as anti-malware apps," stated a report of the findings.

The tests found that some apps in the Google Play store were so ineffective that they detected themselves as malware.

https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/android-test-2019-250-apps/

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/android-antivirus-app-fake-google-play-a8827816.html

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#google #playstore #antivirus #ineffective #fake #malware

New billion euro fine against Google in the EU
Google has again violated European competition law. This time 1.49 billion euros must be paid.

The EU Commission has imposed a fine of 1.49 billion euros on Google. In the case of Sitesearch Adsense for Search, other providers were obstructed, the competition authority announced on 20 March 2019. This is the third time the EU has imposed a billion euro fine on Google.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-fined-17-billion-for-breaking-eu-antitrust-rules-over-adsense-2019-3

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-fined-1-5-billion-eu-adsense

https://www.securityweek.com/eu-fines-google-anti-trust-breach

https://www.golem.de/news/adsense-for-search-neue-milliardenstrafe-gegen-google-in-der-eu-1903-140136.html

📡 @NoGoolag
#google #fine #EU #comission #competition #law #why

This happens in one minute on the Internet
Facebook logins, app downloads, whatsapp messages or sent emails

https://twitter.com/lorilewis/status/1103687442727616523

#info #facebook #google #whatsapp #messages #emails #oneminute
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LineageOS - Take back control! Part2

1. release from the embrace

With the article series "Take back control!" you as a user should regain control over your Android device or your data step by step. A first step towards independence is the change of the manufacturer's own Android system. This will not only get rid of the manufacturer's bloatware, like pre-installed apps and services, but will also free us from Google's close embrace.

We manage this liberation with the free Android operating system LineageOS - a modification of Google's Android and the direct successor of the successful CyanogenMod. With such a custom ROM or alternative system we disconnect ourselves from the manufacturer's own Android systems. The use of LineageOS should bring us one step closer to our goal of regaining data dominance on the Android.

Read the full article (part1) in english:
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/156

Read the full article (part2) in english:
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/273

Source and more infos / read in german:
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/android-ohne-google-take-back-control-teil1/
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/lineageos-take-back-control-teil2/

#android #NoGoogle #LineageOS #guide #part1 #part2 #kuketz
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