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I use a Xiaomi Redmi S2 purchased in China. Simplest way to run G-free and its damn fine equipment. #justsaying

• askvictor 7y ago
  Hmm; would I rather Google have access to my data, or the Chinese Government?
  • deleted 7y ago
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  • acct1771 7y ago
    Soon you can have both!
  • acct1771 7y ago
    Also, the American government/5E.
    • ajxs 7y ago
      I know for sure that world politics is truly a very grim state of affairs when I view the American government as less of a threat than Google or China.
• ummwhat 7y ago
  I'm on a redmi purchased in China and I eventually switched to lineage because the people's app store didn't always have what I need.
  • helloindia 7y ago
    "people's app store didn't always have what I need." This gave me a chuckle.
  • em-bee 7y ago
    i wiped the preinstalled OS as soon as i got a chance. the constant nagging to connect to their cloud services was disturbing. and i wouldn't trust any chinese market. the level of spyware/adware in those is sickening.
• fxfan 7y ago
  How does it handle calls to map api?
• throwawa4234 7y ago
  I was horrified on installing netguard that Xiaomi phones ping their own servers (on AWS) as often as Google does theirs. It's depressing what the 'smarphone' age has come to be.