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    June 28, 2020

    Android Sunday Rant/Rage (Jun 28 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread!

    Sunday Rant/Rage (Jun 28 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread!

    Posted: 28 Jun 2020 04:11 AM PDT

    Note 1. Join our IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions.

    This weekly Sunday thread is for you to let off some steam and speak out about whatever complaint you might have about:

    • Your device.

    • Your carrier.

    • Your device's manufacturer.

    • An app

    • Any other company

    Rules

    1) Please do not target any individuals or try to name/shame any individual. If you hate Google/Samsung/HTC etc. for one thing that is fine, but do not be rude to an individual app developer.

    2) If you have a suggestion to solve another user's issue, please leave a comment but be sure it's constructive! We do not want any flame-wars.

    3) Be respectful of other's opinions. Even if you feel that somebody is "wrong" you don't have to go out of your way to prove them wrong. Disagree politely, and move on.

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    US Senators introduce bill to FORCE all device and software providers in the US to build backdoors into their products. Bill would make encryption illegal for American-made Android software unless it had a backdoor for the US government

    Posted: 27 Jun 2020 12:48 PM PDT

    (Original post removed due to technicality. Repost:)

    Article:

    https://www.androidauthority.com/lawful-access-to-encrypted-data-1132922/

    Full Bill: Click here

    Relevance to Android:

    Think of all the Android apps/software you use that use encryption. If this bill passes, all such software made by American companies or organizations (Signal, Whatsapp, etc.), would be illegal (at least for Americans) unless the software had a backdoor built into it for the US government to be able to access the encrypted data.

    The law establishes a precedent for other nations to follow, and for further legislation to be passed, such as requiring encryption data to be unencrypted on demand (like in Australia), or outlawing encryption outright. The EFF has already spoken out about it (it's even worse than the EARN IT Act from three months ago). For these reasons, even non-Americans should be concerned.

    It does nothing to stop criminals, either. They will continue downloading and using encrypted software, or encrypting data on backdoored devices. All it will do is give a huge blow to average Americans who use American software. There will be obvious security problems having a built-in backdoor (criminals and hackers would exploit it), and the bill would set the precedent that encryption and privacy are bad/illegal/etc. Many businesses might leave the country, and people would lose their privacy.

    If you are an American:

    Contact your two US senators. Tell them to vote NO on the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act

    https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

    If your senator says they support the bill because "encryption helps child traffickers and terrorists", respond with the aforementioned reasons listed above. The reality line is: it won't stop criminals.

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    Mi Android TV stick found on Aliexpress

    Posted: 27 Jun 2020 12:23 PM PDT

    Adding Channels to YouTube Music

    Posted: 27 Jun 2020 12:38 PM PDT

    So a lot of people complain that they don't want their YouTube video preferences to cross pollinate into their YouTube music preferences. One thing you can do is to create channels in your YouTube account and switch to whatever channel you want.

    1 Login to YouTube
    2 Go to Settings
    3 In the middle of the screen you'll see Add or manage your channel(s)
    4 Add a channel called Music
    5 Go back to YouTube Music, select your Account, and switch to the Music channel
    6 Customize your Music channel tastes
    7 Done

    I think you can have up to 100 channels so if you want nothing but a certain genre of music then just create a channel for it.

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    Sony Xperia 1 ii Review | Worth that premium price?

    Posted: 27 Jun 2020 06:48 AM PDT

    No work from home support in Google products?

    Posted: 27 Jun 2020 08:03 AM PDT

    It's interesting that even though the entire Google corporation (and almost all other Tech companies) are Working From Home for the rest of the year - there's still no official "work from home" support in official Google apps like Google Maps.

    • You can't set your Home and Work address to be the same
    • if you leave Work address unfilled, it nags you to complete it

    Isn't this extremely backwards?

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