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Re:Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Ver... by RyanZAG on Thursday January 07, 2016 @08:36AM (#10857776)
Hang on, wasn't the whole point of Cyanogen about removing bloatware in standard Android distributions and adding more privacy measures?

How can adding a large app that sends data to Microsoft help with bloatware or security..? I've used Cyanogen a little before on certain Android devices that had tons of built in bloat and themes to slim it down a bit. I definitely wouldn't want to swap one type of bloat for another.

Time to use a different slim rom from XDA I guess?

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Re:Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Ver... by gvurrdon on Thursday January 07, 2016 @09:00AM (#10857909)
IIRC this only affects Cyanogen OS and not CyanogenMod.

http://www.androidcentral.com/difference-between-cyanogen-os...

So, you should be able to avoid Cortana by using CyanogenMod instead.

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Re:Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Ver... by x1798DE on Thursday January 07, 2016 @09:01AM (#10857915)
I'm not 100% sure, but I think cyanogen is different from cyanogenmod. One is the rooted power user rom, the other is some more standard style rom without root.
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Re:Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked into Cyanogen’s Forked Ver... by Infinitesimus on Thursday January 07, 2016 @11:44AM (#10858941)
Microsoft doesn't own the company, Cyanogen Inc is venture funded presently
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