Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world Moonrise2473 @feddit.it 2w ago

Can't install app because it isn't "certified" by the government

There's a certain "people's republic" where they introduced a new government signature on all android apps. For "safety", as they "check" the apps for you 😉

more of this ICP scam

For now it can be bypassed after three pages of scary warnings but in the future?

Maybe it could be a big reason of why they're liking harmony os that much, you don't need to manually approve android apps if android apps are completely unsupported

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TBH, I’m mildly surprised that this is a recent change. Signed binaries are neither new technology nor all that difficult.

Compared to all of the other crazy things that government does, this seems like relatively low hanging fruit.

PS don’t give our orange leader to be (or congress) any ideas…
Why have we given juggalos so much power?
- Because there’s magic everywhere in this bitch
  
  Hot lava, snow, rain, and fog. Long-neck giraffes and pet cats and dogs.
- It was always going to end this way.
- It must run on magnets.
- ICP - The Loons
Well you bought a Chinese phone. The Chinese government likes to restrict what its people see like all authoritarian governments.

Get something with stock Android or iOS. Better yet, go foss droid
- pixel with a custom ROM for OG freedom lovers!
I feel your pain. Went to have a wank last night before bed and went to pornhub and my state government wants to verify age via ID card. So pornhub just said fuck that shit and my ip address is blocked from visiting the lovely site. Am sad
- VPN?
  
  Or just use tor. Be careful when searching nsfw stuff mind you.
  
  Yeah, good point
  
  VPN works just fine, as long as you can set your location. I know this because some sites are blocked in my area, and I can get to them when I change my location in my VPN.
- So, have you bitched at your state rep about it yet?
  
  Oh you though state bitch works for you? You got it backwards.
  
  State Rep is corpo bitch. Better take the complain to porn hub, they would then order state bitch to fix it.
  
  Like they'd listen. I'm in Oklahoma, liberals don't have a voice here.
- Xnxx and xvideos don't give a shit where you live friend.
- Tor
  
  For Tor to work, you have to reduce your security settings, and allow javascript; that's not generally a good idea when you're using Tor. Even when you do that, the network is slow enough that videos don't seem to complete loading. (I just checked.)
- Texas?
  
  Oklahoma 🙃
- Would mobile data work? Websites always think I'm in Colorado
- They just want to see your face before you masturbate. ;)
  
  Wait until they start demanding an "after" picture.
At least your country is down with the clown.
- Fucking phones, how do they work?
- Whoop Whoop
Why did you even buy a phone meant for the Chinese market in the first place?
- Could live in China.
  
  Odd since he is on an Italian-speaking instance
- Presumably because it's much cheaper.
  
  There are reasons why it's cheaper, and none of them improve your life.
  
  There are plent of cheap chinese phones supported by lineage os tho.
  
  Well today it's maybe a bad idea (I havent really digged through it all recently but it seems to be a not good idea), but back in the day Xiaomi was the beast phone for cheap, with all the bells & whistles like swappable battery, sd card, good CPU & RAM etc. for a fraction of the cost of an iPhone or Samsung.
  
  So well, time changes!
Where do you live that you are being governed by the Insane Clown Posse?
Don't buy Xiaomi.
- I used MIUI.EU on Xiaomi phones for some years and it was pretty great (and inexpensive). But I wouldn't suggest it in the USA because the carriers here don't always play nice with them.
"This app hasn't been checked for third party spyware along with our official trusted spyware. Proceed with caution."
I've got your ICP registration info right here baby WOOP WOOP
Have you tried yelling " WHOOP WHOOP" at it?
- Terrain. Terrain. PULL. UP!
  
  WINDSHEAR! WINDSHEAR!
What a fucking nightmare
China, what a bastion of freedom.
- There's like 5 governments doing full dragnet surveillance in the world, wonder if one can send an interesting enough dickpic to warrant a UNSC joint session
Yeaah.. im starting to really dislike phones tbh.. i might start sticking to my laptop from now on, infinitely less restrictive
- That's a perfectly acceptable plan, were it not that a laptop is much less handy. It's cumbersome to use a laptop while standing in a crowded bus, for instance, that's what a phone is good for.
  
  I did exactly that many years ago. Ditched my phone and went with x86 UMPC with builtin 3G modem, the name of which I don't remember because it was some random Chinese no-name. Unfortunately that experiment coincided with the era of "fuck websites, we're going app-only because we're so hip". I was in a world of pain right off the bat when I got a carrier plan, specifically marketed for usage on PC's, and it did not work. I called them and they said to me:
  
  Do you have Android or iOS?
  
  I only have Windows
  
  Windows phone?
  
  No, Windows 8...
  
  Well, you'll have to use the app to activate the SIM card...
  
  Turns out, the usage on PC's meant tethering...
  
  Lots of online things, if they were even available as websites, were highly cut down versions of apps. And SMS 2FA, goddamn. I remember not being able to buy booze and shoes because, apparently, phone confirmations were required in those establishments. Good thing they're fading out in favor of TOTP and passkeys. But, at a time, I had to swtich to a carrier that allowed me to use "corporate" features like SMS forwarding and SIP telephony. Also, fuck WhatsApp, that shit can burn in all fires of hell.
  
  On the other hand, I really miss that time. It was liberating, just not having like, a few dozen malwares in my pocket tracking me down just to track someone's dog, or a bus, or to spy on someone's buying preferences or whatever. But things have gotten quite a bet better over the years, so I'm kind of inclined to repeat the experiment with my new-ish OM3S which I carry because I still cannot imagine going out without a proper PC on me (don't buy it, though, it is severely underpowered, better get something GPD instead).
  
  And also there's a million things that are app-only. You can use an emulator, I guess, and I suppose on a newer laptop than mine it might even run smoothly.
  
  You'll be treated as a freak if you can't produce a smartphone in certain situations, though, and the impact of that is underrated.
  
  What about a mini laptop?
Fucking Smart Phones, how do they work?
That's only on their local android varieties though. That looks like a Xiaomi/Redmi phone? In that case head over to xiaomi.eu, download the EU version of the ROM, and flash it following the instructions there, it's very straightforward.

With Oppo and OnePlus phones it's equally simple, there are a ton of how-to's over on https://forum.xda-developers.com/ for all models. If you stay in China, best get their Indian ROMs, the EU ones have some mobile bands inactive that are not in use there, but are in Asia.

For other phone manufacturers, it's anywhere between trivial and impossible (Huawei for example). Xda-dev is your best source of info usually.
- More recent Xiaomi phones for the Chinese market have locked bootloaders. Their European counterparts can still be unlocked, but they have tightened that as well, supposedly because the CCP told them to.
  
  Typing this on a Poco F6.
  
  Crap. I got OnePlus 7 pro and 10 pro in China and could still unlock them easily, haven't checked since.
ICP?
- That's right; the Insane Clown Posse demands you register your apps with them for your saftey.
  
  Actual ICP
  
  a permit issued by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) to permit China-based websites to operate in China
  
  sheepooh needs to sign off on the software you run... pathetic.
  
  Oh it is just part of Chinese censorship
- I was unaware that Insane Clown Posse was approving Android apps nowadays.
- Incredible Communist Party
- Yeah you know me
  
  Every last homie?
- Inmate Corrections Phallcility
Can you install a jailbreak OS, or is that not allowed for “safety”?
- In this specific case can do it but the bootloader unlock request must come from a Chinese ip address, from a verified Chinese number (get otp code via SMS) and wait like one month
  
  And I bet this process is going to add you to some list of people to keep an eye on.
  
  Since when do they have those rules? A year ago I unlocked my Xiaomi phone. Outside China. Did not have a Chinese phone number. It took less than an hour.
Why is your phone half a meter long?
Augh i hate xiaomi so much.
- Businesses tend to follow local laws, even outside China.
  
  I hate Xiaomi for other reasons aswell,
It sucks!
FAFO... bought the chinaman phone, got fucked by the chinaman
- well that's an easy block
  
  thank you ;)
- Gonna be one yike from me, fam.
- China bad, says Chinese nickname
  
  if i aint gonna bootlick daddy sam, i am surely as fuck aint gonna bootlick chinaman's clown regime either ;)

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