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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Is using Android with GApps as bad as running Windows on your PC? (fedia.io)

submitted 1 month ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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In regards to privacy... even when trying to use FOSS-alternatives and F-Droid on Android?

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[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its a pretty low bar but Android is going to be more private then Windows. Google having privileged access to your phone is still terrible but Windows doesn't really have any privacy protections by default. Android at least does things such as sandboxing its non privileged apps. It also provides a lot better hardware security for your data then most Windows devices would...outside of secure core pcs its pretty trash for hardware privacy in the Windows world.