• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    “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.”

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      7 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.