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Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by ACS_Solver on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:40PM (#12447439)
I also prefer Cyanogen, although I like having access to the Google Play store even on that. While that's tied to my Google account, it's an informed choice, I am fine with Google knowing what Play Store apps I have installed, and I use F-Droid at the same time for some other apps.

One of the great things about Cyanogen is maintaining tight control even over Google's apps and how much they track me.

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Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by ryukafalz on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:28PM (#12448474)
> One of the great things about Cyanogen is maintaining tight control even over Google's apps and how much they track me.

Are you sure? How much is Play Services tracking you?

I run MicroG on my own phone, personally. It's a FOSS implementation of (most of) the Play Services APIs.

https://microg.org/

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