• HidingCat@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    For privacy-minded people, hardware switches are a nice thing. I remember when I had a Xiaomi Mi 9T with its popup camera, and it was interesting to see that some websites would trigger said popup camera. While the camera was never actually used, the thing would go up and down. This was even with an ad blocker installed.

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      1 year ago

      I have a Mi 9 t pro. Never experienced anything like that.

      While I do have hardened my settings, debloat with adb etc. privacy whise and use the EU MIUI rom.

      Do you rememher said websites?

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        Man, it has been a while, as I don’t use the 9T as the daily phone now. I think I recall The Verge as one of the sites, because I wasn’t expecting it from them. It happened only a few times, and it wasn’t site-wide. Can’t remember which pages triggered it though.

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        1 year ago

        My friend had one, and Instagram would often pop it out and back in quickly. That was way back when though.

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        Speakers are microphones, they are the same thing(basically), one uses current to move a diaphragm to create pressure and the other uses pressure to move the diaphragm to create a current.