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Re:Google vs. the Open Web by gkbrk on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:24AM (#36878246)
A huge number of people only use the internet with their phones, and Google is doing their best to tie the entire system to Google services and the Chrome browser.
Re:Google vs. the Open Web by Daril on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:54AM (#36879845)
Exactly. And why the phones are sold with preinstalled with all the Google software and services and it is difficult to remove them if not via adb cli ? If they are the best in the World as someone else has stated, the people will flock to install them on a "vanilla" phone, right ? All your SMS, contacts, emails, location positions, photos ... One time my mother was at a funeral at a cemetry, nearby is a cafè. 20 minutes later she got a notification from Google : "How was your experience at the cafè ?" What have this to do with their own products, their free tier levels, the freedom to not watch Youtube or use Gmail ?