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Re:Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen by cbd1984 on Friday January 30, 2015 @04:34AM (#8971209)
CM also phones home on an opt-out basis, and they even wanted to remove the option to opt-out. They also still give data to Google.

https://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2013/04/03/cyanogenmod-...

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Re:Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen by Brakenshire on Friday January 30, 2015 @08:33AM (#8971881)
I'd say it's more important that most CM installations include play services, which is doing who knows what in the background.

But at least the changes above are open source, and you can see what's going on. Or if they go too far, someone else can pick up the baton and move on. It's becoming more difficult for that to happen from stock Android, as more functionality and applications become reliant on play services, which can ultimately only be installed on terms set by Google.

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