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Oh, I hope this is Google having their “Facebook moment”!
by gregknicholson 8y ago
Oh, I hope this is Google having their “Facebook moment”!
- ColinWright 8y agoIt is, it absolutely is. People will run around going "Google is horrible! Google is terrible", and then ... Nothing will change.
- scarface74 8y agoWhat realistic choices do people have? I use iOS, but given the choice between a decent Android phone like the Moto E that you can get for less than $150 and a $650+ iPhone, I wouldn't advise most people to get an iPhone.
- peatmoss 8y agoI prefer the Android experience, but switched back to iOS / iPhone a couple years back precisely because I did ask myself how much Apple’s better-but-not-robustly-verifiable privacy posture was. I decided that, over the life of a phone, that was worth at least $500 and the associated lesser UX. I don’t know that a smartphone has to cost $650, but I don’t think most US corporations will sign up to deliver a $150 smartphone that doesn’t mine your privacy.
- crystaln 8y agoSame. I really want to switch to Android for various reasons but can't bring myself to give up Apple's core respect for privacy.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoLineageOS + MicroG is all you need to cut out Google and get enhanced, per-app privacy controls.
- crystaln 8y agoSure. I'm not interested in spending my time hacking my phone tho, and I want to use Google services. I want privacy by default. Also I'm less concerned about Google having my data than my messages being sent plaintext through carriers.
- gregknicholson 8y ago> What realistic choices do people have? That's the problem. A market without competition is a cabal.
- gilrain 8y agoLove that can-do attitude.
- ColinWright 8y agoThe power of accurate observations is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it. -- George Bernard Shaw
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- lawlessone 8y agoIt isn't . It will have to be bigger, like something huge leaking. A lot of people wont care until everything google knows about them is known by the general public.
- dredmorbius 8y agoJohn Podesta's emails, say?
- rm_-rf_slash 8y agoHardly. The reason Facebook ceased to get a pass for everything it did was because user data was harvested without their permission (friends of friends) and was used for nefarious means. That was a huge shock, and just goes to show how complacent we are about digital privacy. Google’s “Facebook moment” is still very far away.