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Android chaos, everyone knows.

But do you know how messy it is?

Now, we ordinary users can also quantitatively analyze and detect.

The truth may be more serious than imagined.

Look at the data.

App background fancy start, read data every 6 seconds, do you believe it?

Things start with Android Top Stream Xiaomi, and "Coarse Grains Factory" has just launched a new mobile phone system MIUI 12.

"Smooth, elegant, comparable to iOS, how many years ahead of other Android OS …"

The above praise can be found in Lei Jun’s Weibo.

However, I never expected that it was this flare that caused a heated discussion and even caused users to fry the pot.

The so-called flare is to monitor the startup, access and data reading of the App in the mobile phone in the background.

Previously, mobile phone users, especially Android, knew that the background apps were dishonest, but the situation was simply shocking when a flare was fired.

Only you can’t think of it, no Android App can’t do it.

For example, there are such self-starting and started:

△ Image from Weibo netizens

There are also apps with apps, and the background starts and wakes up other applications more than a dozen times a minute:

△ Image from Weibo netizens

In addition, there are unusually large numbers of reading data:

△ Image from fast technology

13,600 times a day? ? ?

Even if the statistical "one day" is 24 hours, it means more than 566 times an hour … almost 9.45 times a minute.

Or to put it more bluntly, it is read almost once every 6 seconds.

Is this the new popular way of punching cards?

Android systemic dysentery, can Xiaomi cure it?

Of course, for many Android phone users, all this may be familiar.

I haven’t seen or heard it before: this is the hidden rule of domestic Android ecology.

When the App is installed, it often asks for a lot of permissions: camera, microphone, address book, local file reading and writing.

I feel that every permission may betray your privacy. What’s even worse is that many apps can’t be used without these permissions.

Even if you escape the request for sensitive permissions, your mobile phone is still not worrying, and various eavesdropping events in the background of App emerge one after another.

Such a chronic illness will not happen overnight, because of the software itself, and there are also problems left over from the history of Android system.

As far as file reading is concerned, iOS adopts the sandbox mechanism, and any App can only manage its own one-acre three-point land, and has no reading permission for the external storage space.

Android uses folder management, and App can create and read any files except system files in the system.

Your social software shares pictures by reading system files directly, instead of calling system photo albums like iOS. The advantage of doing this is naturally that the software is more free, but the problem that comes with it is the theft of privacy.

It’s not that Google hasn’t thought about vigorously rectifying it, but it’s already hard to return.

Last year, Google added sandbox mechanism to Android 10 beta, but many apps, such as pictures and music apps, still work by reading system folders. If Google forces the sandbox mechanism, these softwares will not work.

Finally, Google gave in and allowed the software not to use the sandbox mechanism. In addition, Android did not have a perfect push management mechanism at the beginning of its birth.

The push of iOS is managed by Apple’s system and server. Even if the App is not running in the background, as long as the push permission is turned on, the push can be carried out normally.

Although Google later added a similar mechanism to Android, there is no Google service installed on domestic mobile phones, and each software can only go its own way, relying on the App to push itself, and the premise of the App’s own push is not "killed" by the system.

So there was a scene that was exposed this time. Many apps will start from time to time, or a number of apps will join forces to wake up and start each other.

In this way, the mobile phone will consume a lot of memory, and the privacy of users will not be protected.

Domestic mobile phone manufacturers, such as Xiaomi, Huawei and OPPO, have also pushed SDK like Apple, but the results are not much.

Xiaomi also said that relying on their own strength is still limited. Only when the whole industry pays more attention can we really solve the problem of user privacy protection.

So this time, it was the first time that Xiaomi started the trend and took the lead in firing this shot.

In a word, it also gives a kind of thinking of governance and solution.

Just as mentioned above, the flare function puts everything on the visible list and suddenly becomes a incendiary bomb.

The user exploded, and this time the user really exploded.

In this roll call of flare bombs, there are many kinds of big factory apps, such as Tencent video and the glory of the king in the screenshot above.

There are also Weibo, Gaode Map, Tik Tok and Alipay exposed by netizens, and even Xiaomi’s own application "Xiaomi Fight Landlord".

Few people were spared.

Seeing this situation, some netizens lamented that this is "the true face of Lushan Mountain, all of which are opened in the back." Some people even nicknamed these applications "old hooligans".

Some people feel pessimistic, saying, "Don’t expect any change. It’s never a technical problem."

There are also praises for Xiaomi: "It is to bring these hooliganism to the light!"

Of course, many people shouted-Xiaomi hold on.

But …

Is this all the facts or the status quo? The truth is that Android App is unscrupulous?

The named company has been wronged.

Response from all sides

Query on the call of specific application and data reading.

It is embarrassing to explore the social App that is accused of "reading and writing data 13,000 times in the background".

The reason is that the results of their own review are not as exaggerated as the exposed screenshots.

The exploration official responded that after learning the news, it applied for the internal test qualification through Xiaomi and verified it.

But as a result, no matter whether it is started or in the background, the exploration App is normal, reading and storing in one day, with only single digits, and there is no "13,000 times".

The exploration official also said that the media that originally sent the data has been deleted.

They also provided a video to prove their innocence.

Other named apps and companies have not been publicly explained.

As for Xiaomi-some netizens worry that it will be too fierce because of one shot, and the subsequent pressure and resistance are too great to persist.

In this regard, Xiaomi’s attitude is:

Privacy protection is the general trend, and it is also the top priority of Xiaomi. We insist on it and dare not slack off.

Xiaomi said that the privacy protection of MIUI12 can cause heated discussion, which obviously fundamentally solves the pain point needs of users, so it will trigger the resonance of rice noodles, which is a happy result.

In addition, we also asked Xiaomi: What should I do if I offend a large number of apps after this wave of updates?

The answer given by Xiaomi is that before the launch of these functions, it has been weighed under the balance of multiple interests, but the most important thing is to solve the problem of user privacy protection.

"We have a deep understanding of the seriousness of privacy protection issues, so we will further strengthen the user’s privacy protection capabilities on MIUI12. Privacy protection can be said to be the general trend of the whole industry, but Xiaomi is one of the first companies in China to stand out. I believe that more companies will join the privacy protection army of users in the future. "

Xiaomi believes that privacy is the aspiration of users and the right way. In the final analysis, as long as it is good for Xiaomi users, they will insist on doing it, and the initial intention of making friends with users will not change.

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Original title: "Android App is too messy! Exposed to sweep your backstage 13,000 times a day: Xiaomi system update, accidentally pulled out the amazing truth "

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