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> They can't tell other governments to censor anything They don't need to tell governments anything. Just turn on a built-in filter in a small OS update. Or in
by dspillett 5y ago
> They can't tell other governments to censor anything
They don't need to tell governments anything. Just turn on a built-in filter in a small OS update. Or install a fresh one for now or later in a larger update.
Maybe there are no other filters. There are none we know about. But we didn't know about this one until we did... And is anyone forensically checking what is in OS updates for their phones. You can check the release notes, but all you'll likely find there is the unhelpfully generic “security and performance changes”.
I have a Xiaomi phone. Great battery life, even compared to other devices with the same sort of spec and battery size. But they achieve that by cheating: it does non-standard things WRT killing processes to save power that means things you might want to allow to keep active¹, that you can allow to remain active on other Android devices, don't work as expected.
[1] Garmin Connect and integration services for other devices, background audio players, and so on.