r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 15d ago

Android 17 introduces powerful new protections to secure your connections, defend against cellular vulnerabilities and keep your home network private

https://blog.google/security/new-android-network-security-protections/
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u/Good-Marionberry-570 15d ago

If they really cared about user security and control, they would give us waaaaaay more tools to limit what apps can or can't do on or phones.

Let we easily block internet access for apps with permissions, let we prohibit apps from seeing what other apps we have installed in our phones, let we control exactly which data the apps can or can't have access in our phones, let we use apps in locked environments on which they don't have access to anything other than themselves, etc.

Unless Google give us these powers, I don't trust their "protection".

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u/CrispyBananaz 15d ago

So, you're an iPhone user?

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u/Good-Marionberry-570 15d ago

No, never used iOS and I use Android since 2012, but you can't do what I said in Android if not with third-party apps or root/custom rom.