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If you're not paying for it, you are the product; except for with ๐ and then it's both.
they did pay 1000$+ phones just to have ads on it.
Just like every Android phone that comes pre-loaded with trash apps you have to delete.
i bought a min OP12R, i had delete a couple apps i dont use on it. A carrier issued phone has even worst bloat. I just disabled most of the google ones, like play, and WALLET because it kept activating tag (fare machine)on public transport, i had to do a work around since there wasnt an easy way to completely eliminate that.
Only in the USA, I think. I'm in the UK and don't have 'trash apps'.
Unless you mean Facebook and YouTube, thinking about it, which yeah is annoying.
They didn't say literally anything about Android or Google...
Idk what you're talking about, I program my own OSs in assembly language and solder my own hardware from e-waste. Get gud normie.
Fair enough.
Open Street Maps doesn't do any of this bullshit.
Oh, well, if Google does it then it must be okay.