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How does one of the largest and richest Sillicon Valley companies of all time still resort to this type of behavior?

If it was a fledgling startup that desperately needed the money or else they went bankrupt then I would understand. But google?

most normal people have no idea how to activate the developer settings. And chances are, it’s these people that are exploited the most by this type of malware

the play store has geo-blocking apps as a feature. Meaning that, if it was necessary, google could restrict the Signal app from being installed in Singapore, at the Chinese government’s request

I know that this post will probably be downvoted to hell, but I’m pretty sure no phone will return the headphone jack, ever.

You’re either gonna have to quit using smartphones entirely or just have to give up on the headphone jack dream. It’s never going to happen again

yeah, my thoughts exactly

An often ignored part of internet social etiquette is that people don’t deactivate their accounts when they stop using a platform.
If you haven’t logged into a social media account for the past half a year, you should consider deleting your own account. Preferably there should even be an automated system on that platform’s backend that would delete your account for you after a long enough period of inactivity from your part