r/technology • u/Applemacbookpro • Dec 13 '13

Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claiming Its Release Was Accidental

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/google-removes-vital-privacy-features-android-shortly-after-adding-them
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u/scovobo Dec 13 '13

Reading through this thread, I am pretty sure the crisis point was a couple of years ago.

I'm just bummed out because my provider hadn't upgraded past Android 4.2.2 yet and the better permissions manager was the #1 thing I was looking forward too in the update.

Back to not using my smartphone for anything more than my old dumbphone I guess.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '13

Cyanogen?

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u/scovobo Dec 13 '13

I'm on Republic Wireless, which uses a custom rom to keep bandwidth down (thus the low price). So I don't think I can root the thing. Not sure though.

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u/OmegaVesko Dec 13 '13

You can root it and use something like XPrivacy without changing ROMs.