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my belief that "maybe running my own build of android daily isn't the absolute best idea" has evaporated within one millisecond of inserting my SIM card and discovering the amount of spam my carrier sends via SIM toolkit, which you can't normally disable or stop from being modal

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Catherine

@whitequark

Sep 12, 2020

how much did carriers pay google for keeping these toggles on regardless of user consent??

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Last I checked 0, because its enforced by law.

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ok yeah that would explain it

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Unfortunately, there are a lot of things relying on it especially government and bank related services. I don't think it has any special sauce to prevent disabling it but rather apps with the platform signature can only be disabled via adb rather than the Settings app.

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oh. that would explain why none of my attempts to make it possible to disable it via Settings worked

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We actually had users demand that we include this and we were initially pretty reluctant to include it... we plan to change some things about it like changing the way it supports opening URLs to require the user to accept opening the URL, etc. It's really badly designed IMO.

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