Hold on, can you substantiate the claim that Google's apps are spyware, or are they rather just collecting anonymous usage data for the benefit of their advertisement business? IMO you can't just equate those two ...
In my mind companies like Apple and Microsoft with their obscene profit margins are just as "evil" (if not more) than Google - their business model is just different, which allows those two to act sanctimoniously versus Apple and Google when it comes to privacy (but Apple and MS are detestable in other ways).
Yeah maybe we should blame ourselves, but OTOH maybe most of use don't care that much ... and even if everything's open source, someone's gotta pay for hosting and running the services, or would we all suddenly go take a subscription instead of enjoying freebees? If you give people a choice then most of them will take the freebees with ads rather than a subscription.
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Hold on, can you substantiate the claim that Google's apps are spyware, or are they rather just collecting anonymous usage data for the benefit of their advertisement business? IMO you can't just equate those two ...
In my mind companies like Apple and Microsoft with their obscene profit margins are just as "evil" (if not more) than Google - their business model is just different, which allows those two to act sanctimoniously versus Apple and Google when it comes to privacy (but Apple and MS are detestable in other ways).
Yeah maybe we should blame ourselves, but OTOH maybe most of use don't care that much ... and even if everything's open source, someone's gotta pay for hosting and running the services, or would we all suddenly go take a subscription instead of enjoying freebees? If you give people a choice then most of them will take the freebees with ads rather than a subscription.