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What makes you think Google has access to your IMEI through using their search engine?
by ThePowerOfFuet 8mo ago
What makes you think Google has access to your IMEI through using their search engine?
- bdangubic 8mo agoFriends at Google :)
- ThePowerOfFuet 8mo agoChrome may well have access to persistent identifiers on Android, but websites do not. The search engine has nothing to do with it.
- alek-cape 8mo agoI thought access to IMEI and IMSI was pretty heavily restricted starting with Android 10. Graphene [1] makes a few extra restrictions beyond AOSP [2], but it's been around for a while now. To get access to IMEI and IMSI, you need to either be a carrier app, allowlisted, or grant the `READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE` permission. Unless Chrome is running at a system level in AOSP or some OEM specific firmware, I wouldn't expect it to have `READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE` [1] - https://grapheneos.org/faq#hardware-identifiers https://grapheneos.org/faq#hardware-identifiers [2] - https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/device-identifiers https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/device-identifi...