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Atemu ,
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The software version doesn’t just say “Android 14” either. It looks very specific.

Yeah, it's likely a rather precise Android version.

So what? What does the Android version you use reveal about you? What part of your threat model does it violate?

Here, you can have the exact version of my phone: lineage_FP4-userdebug 13 TQ3A.230901.001 2023111915 test-keys. Can you identify me now?

(In my case, you theoretically actually could because my version is unique because I homebrew my Android but if you didn't know that, it'd look like any other FP4 with !lineageos on it which is why I'm not at all worried.)

No matter how you look at it, this is not an acceptable way for a device to behave, with no way to change it in settings.

Adding useful metadata that reveals no actual data about the user is a great feature and not worth adding a setting for; especially not in the UI.

I didn't know about this before but I'll look out for that whenever sends a bug report of a mobile app with screenshot as it might include the device and Android version used which is super useful info to have when troubleshooting.

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