Re:Google collects metadata from Android phones
by spriggan3 on Friday July 01, 2016 @01:58PM
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It's dead if you use all these "free" services, "free" mobile os and services and "free" apps like Chrome browser, provided by Google,Facebook and co. By using these "freebies" you are willingly giving up data. People are effectively paying with their privacy, it is made completely clear. That's the model the "free" internet chose to go with. People don't seem to care about their privacy or don't understand the consequences of giving up all their data to Google and co. These collected data are not anonymous.
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Re:Google collects metadata from Android phones
by whamlastxmas on Friday July 01, 2016 @02:38PM
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Any website that has any sort of third party analytics or advertising invades privacy. All three of the major browsers invade privacy (or allow it to leak out). Governments monitor and store data directly from ISPs. Windows 10, which isn't free, has tons of privacy issues.
The issue is not in any sense limited to "free" things.
Re:Google collects metadata from Android phones
by retox on Friday July 01, 2016 @03:41PM
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From a consumer standpoint; is android free?
I paid for the phone, I own it outright but Google still seems set on turning me into a cash cow.
Re:Google collects metadata from Android phones
by Natanael_L on Saturday July 02, 2016 @11:06AM
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Get a phone that allows you to flash a custom ROM and pick one without Google's apps.
Re:Google collects metadata from Android phones
by nol13 on Friday July 01, 2016 @10:50PM
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"It's dead if you use all these "free" services, "free" mobile os and services and "free" apps like Chrome browser, provided by Google,Facebook and co. "
Don't forget about all of your packets being sniffed at every hop as they go through all those telco routers you pay to use. Dead there to unless you use tor too, but then you just get flagged for using tor.