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Mandrake’s ability to go unnoticed was the result of designs not often seen in Android malware.
Mandrake’s ability to go unnoticed was the result of designs not often seen in Android malware.
Google doesn’t make Android for the users, but as an extension of their advertising/tracking program. Same with Chrome. Users were always a secondary priority. But they made it opensource so they could circumvent being called a monopoly. Consumers like affordable tech and OEM like data too. So now it’s at well past a critical mass, it’s clamping up its strangle-hold limitimg customization and access.
And If you stray away from that agreement of being tracked 24/7, they’ll break stuff cuz they can.