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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

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)

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

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[–] trolololol 7 points 1 month ago

But but they don't sell your data /s

Yeah silly it's too valuable, they hoard it and sell services that are powered by your data.

It's a great income stream. Google charges oems a fee for running Android. Then charges consumers a fee when they spend money on apps or buy things with Google pay. Then charges for ads using your private data, and ads are reported to be the biggest income stream overall for the company, including search on desktop.