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[–] -2 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Material You is a privacy issue. It gives a reason for people to have a custom wallpaper.Because of the WallpaperColors API, any third party app can use the wallpaper to generate a unique ID based on that

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure apps can just grab your phone's MAC address

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Android really needs a sandbox feature for apps you don't trust (or just any by Meta)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    Samsung has that in Secure Folder. Hardware-based isolation.
    it's completely proprietary tho (Samsung knox stuff is reaching scary levels of obfuscation and proprietary-ness in general)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    So it doesn't simply supply the generated palette from the system? (I never tried implementing Material You)

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    Ah alright, so it is a problem because it can be used as another bit of information to construct a more refined fingerprint of the user?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Uhm.. yeah..., sure, could certainly be another data point for that. I think you can also set static colora thought.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Yes, though now that the option exists setting it to anything would discriminate you from the group that set it the other way, I assume that the OP also considered that as problematic

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    I didn't throw rocks at Material You for being an actual privacy leak but just thinking about the fact that it gives a reason for users to want to use a custom wallpaper instead of default or unicolor I woild have fell for it if I was not already aware of that WallpaperColors API

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wouldn't this ID change every time the user changes their wallpaper?

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    It does. But it also means that if you want to reset the tracking you would need (for every app) to also clear the storage of the app and logging off and log back in with a different account before starting to use the app again

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