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Re:Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team by hackuser on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @06:48PM (#13267326)
> Android is "free" to the consumer, but the payment is that if you want all of the Google apps (which are no longer part of the open source stuff) and the consumer uses the Google apps (likely), all of the search revenue goes to Google.

The payment is your private information.

Re:Thank You and Goodbye, the CyanogenMod Team by greglindahl on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @06:51PM (#13267342)
That too, although unpersonalized search ads are worth a lot more money than your private information.