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[โ€“] kibiz0r@midwest.social 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Google is insidious. They're really an advertising data-collection company, but people think they're a tech service company. Their whole strategy is to provide stuff like Chrome for free so that lots of people use it and it becomes a de facto standard, and then they flip a switch and quietly mine all of that data."

15 minutes later...

"Anyway, I prefer Android cuz it's FOSS."

[โ€“] scoobford@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

People who prefer android because it's open source usually use open source android because that's what they want.

That being said, proprietary blobs and black boxes are a pox on basically every usable device these days. I hate it.