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motivation to deGoogle: Creditors can lock your Android remotely if you are delinquent. (infosec.pub)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The technical mechanism:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.devicelock

update

To be clear, I am not the OP who experienced this problem. I just linked them from here.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think someone mentioned this is in the Playstore services stuff that’s hardwired in to the platform. Which means if a device is unrooted you can possibly do: $ adb shell 'pm disable --user 13 com.google.android.gms'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

User ID is 0, not 13, for the main phone user. Work is usually 10, could be different.

Also, to check list of users, adb shell pm list users

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I think I read somewhere it’s normally 13, and that’s what worked for me. Thanks for the 'list users' command.. that confirmed it on my phone.