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It requires some hardware support, which Zenfone probably doesn’t have. In this case, Asus shouldn’t have shown this setting at all if they don’t support it. Unfortunately there’s no way to enable it for you.

Some info here https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-mobile-network-security-pixel-3490909/

Still safer for users than no updates at all

I’m not against experimentation and changing things. I liked Material 2 but Material 3 is an improvement in every way. Even some of the changes in this redesign are pretty good. My main issue is with the blur. I don’t think it works well with bold contrasting colors that Material aims to use.

And regarding your point on icon shapes, I kind of get it but also I get the reasoning of having uniform sizes — it does look better. I wish there was a way to have different shapes that are uniform in size. They’ve made these new various shapes and they look nice but it would be even nicer if we could apply different shapes to different icons, and not use one shape exclusively for everything.

I don’t like it. Blur makes most of the UI less readable.

Well according to the article, it’ll lessen the notifications of the channels you don’t engage with, as I understand it’s the notifications you often dismiss that will suffer. So if you click on those rarely-uploading ones every time, you should be safe.

Calling out bad actors gives them an audience. Nine of your readers will agree that this person is a piece of shit but the tenth will think “hmm maybe there’s some truth to this” and follow that bad actor. And that’s how it propagates. No, nothing but blocks and silent treatment to people feeding on outrage.