"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."

[–] scoobford@lemmy.zip 21 points 10 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.

[–] antidote101@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Apple and Google are both part of the NSA's Prism data collection program.