Damn, if you use a Chinese Android phone to bypass the firewall, you’d better watch out—your entire browsing history is already known.

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SystemHelper (package name `com.mobiletools.systemhelper): This is the carrier (China Unicom)'s device information reporting component. It collects information such as the list of installed apps, usage duration, data consumption, and IMEI, and uploads it to the server. Mainland Chinese Samsung devices are no exception!!!

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In Developer options, enable USB debugging, then connect the phone to your computer with a USB cable and run the following in the terminal:
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.mobiletools.systemhelper

It seems the phone won’t boot without a SIM card.

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Verlintas/NOIR: Mobile privacy audit: use adb to scan Android app permissions, reporting endpoints, and data flows, and provide reversible remediation. Desktop Android leak audit: permissions, endpoints, data flows, reversible fixes.

It looks like this can detect it—let me take a look.

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There was never any secret to begin with,

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There’s no privacy whatsoever.

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Huawei and Honor don’t have this. Sure enough, Huawei is still the better one. Honor is pretty good to use too…

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Close it if possible. Find some time to deal with it.

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Stop talking, or iPhone prices will go up again.

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You know.

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It’s the same regardless of the machine…