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Google has very direct control over Google Play internal services which are effectively system-level services on android, and collects at least as much data on

by paulmd 4y ago

Google has very direct control over Google Play internal services which are effectively system-level services on android, and collects at least as much data on those users as Apple does on theirs. The 1% of users running some custom Android build aren't really relevant here, Google scrapes up plenty.

shagie 4y ago
> ... [Google] collects at least as much data on those users as Apple does on theirs. https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf > That is, almost two order of magnitude is uploaded by Android (3.6MB) than by iOS at startup, while Android downloads around a third (952MB) of the data of iOS (2.6GB). The paper goes on into a lot more detail of tracking what identifiers are sent when and how often. In particular, look at figure 4 on page 6.