i mean phones with manufacturer imposed bootloader locks that cannot be overriden by the user e.g. all samsung phones after OneUI8, verizon pixels…

it doesn’t support phones with locked bootloader. i believe the list is talking about their fancy installer, even if it doesn’t work one can probably manually install like any other custom rom

those places would just use surveillance cameras

wait this really works? i never got gps working on my degoogled android(lineageos) phone(s).

yep so you don’t see them unless you actively subscribe to those communities.

i see a whole lot of stuff here and not a single communism/startrek post. there are many foss/linux stuff tho

google’s system is not simple, they have a very opaque process that determines whether the user’s environment is “trustworthy” and asks for more information as needed.

it’s still possible to create a new google account without explicitly tying a phone number in some cases, but it hasn’t worked reliably for a very long time now.

until about 2023 creating it on an android <= 4.4 (kitkat) worked 100%, but now that also doesn’t work.

i’ve seen far more. maybe there’s not many on the specific forum/website you’re looking at, but there are many criminals on dark web forums selling directly stolen accounts or accounts generated with stolen PIIs. in this case it is definitely illegal/criminal, and this post may be seen as endorsing such cases.

that’s not what i’m talking about. i mean, the one who sold you the account is very likely not the one who provided the personal information to create the account. it’s very hard to create those online accounts at scale with few people’s personal information, so identity theft is widely utilized to mitigate that.

this doesn’t work these days, google requires your phone number during signup even on android google app. also if you’re using ‘your’ old android phone the IMEI is probably already tied as being owned by you…

yeah this… you can’t know for sure the person selling you the account is the one who made the account, or the one who provided the personal information to create that account.

i highly doubt there are many people who even know where to sell their own created online accounts and monetize them. these accounts being sold at scale very likely seems like accounts that are literally stolen or created with stolen personal information.

of course, i’m not saying violating ToS is illegal or whatever bs. i hate those PII monetizing big tech as much as any other fediverse user.

people can create accounts non-anonymously, and convert them into anonymous accounts by selling them to others

yes so that’s the part where identity theft is used

this legit feels illegal/criminal. aren’t those accounts stolen or made through identity theft?

you can’t do http communication with an empty UA string iirc. i assumed they were asking for something generic/non-unique that lets them blend into other users

korea, mostly english but we also have basic chinese or japanese classes for a year or two

why not just use your web browser?

16.04 xenial ran really well with even 2gb (arm64), i believe 4gb should be plenty even for latest ver

i use numatrix, it’s a fork of nutensor whichbwas a fork of umatrix. it’s regularly updated and available on firefox AMO

unlike nutensor/umatrix or even ublock origin it even has keyboard shortcut feature, so paired with vimfx i almost never have to touch the mouse

monochrome does make direct connections to tidal, use a vpn if you’re cautious. i don’t though…

maybe dpi bypass softwares like zapret or goodbyedpi could help