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Hmm, don't seem to have it on my GrapheneOS phone. :)

Say it with me, peeps. Tenant on your own land!

I first heard about this 2 days ago and it wasn't installed on my phone at that time. Just checked again on a whim and sure enough it was installed!

Google, nobody asked for your safety center bullshit app.

And what if I want to see and send nudes? Google, mind your business.

Oh thank you! Had it on my phone without any notifications or anything else to tell me that!

Am an EU resident, so that's very worrisome to say the least.

Not sure why everybody is upset that it's a separate app. Google has been doing this with Android for almost a decade now in order to bring new functionality without needing to update the entire operating system.

So the hotdog/not hotdog algorithm is finally out?

so it will be able to restrict the messages you send....and cut off those it does not like?

and if in a year, no anti trump opinions are allowed.....we won't even be able to complain to our friends?

Thanks for the post. I had it on my phone as well. A couple days ago the messenger app forced me to update, I wonder if they are related.

Honestly, if the app was open-source so we can check it does not leak data, I would probably have no issue with it.

Making it a separate app makes sense if google wants to allow other apps to re-use the code. No reason to have the same functionality bundled into each app separately.

And the feature, as long as it is configurable, seems useful.

The auto-install is bad but understandable. As far as I am aware, there is no easy way to mark an app as a dependency of another app so it gets automatically installed only when needed. This should be fixed, but auto-install for all is not terrible temporary solution. This does not apply when the app is closed source and may steal your data.

If I had a nickel for every time I reported a pervy corporation to the ACCC, I’d have two nickels– which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Ok, I gotta change to Graphene asap

/laughs in de-googled LineageOS.

I don't understand why they'd make this a separate app and not a configurable setting in Messages.

There are definitely good, non malicious reasons to have it as a separate app and that should actually be preferred. Off the top of my head:

• Separation of permissions - it only has the permissions it asks for instead of every permission messages has
• It can be disabled/removed without disabling messages
• it can be reused by other applications if that's a desirable feature

Some people might actually like this: thinking of women getting unsolicited dick picks in particular

Entirely on my phone?

Why did my firewall ask if I wanted to allow it internet access?

In other news, Google wants to scan all your messenger images.

Keeping sealed iodine patches and band aids inside my leather wristbands.

Staying on the edge of the pit to catch anyone who falls or takes a hit.

🧷 safetycore 🧷

tfw I've never been warned about nudes in my text messages :(

It's into the 2s now. Not ok to push something like this automatically. Should be opt-in.

And then I praise microg / LineageOS

Thank you! I wasn't aware of it! Un-installed now 😁

Have to be honest first Android lost my support when they did their best to kill Micro SD cards then they decided to make connecting mtp only which absolutely ruined using a cable to transfer anything then came the head phone jack being removed.

The final nail on the coffin was scoped storage which made things so much slower it seemed absolutely ridiculous and also stopped you from being able to use files with the app you might have wanted.

At this point I'm kind of hoping something like Tizen or even Harmony Os takes over.

Doesn't even appear to exist for me in the UK. Yay?

Infrastructure to give Google system wide control over what content you can and cannot view.

Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea. Removed it and left a review complaining.