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I'm very happy to tell you that, like most people, I was upset to find that Google collected that data. I was even less impressed with how they handled the dele

I'm very happy to tell you that, like most people, I was upset to find that Google collected that data. I was even less impressed with how they handled the deletion and disclosure of their mistake. I'm happy to discuss that, but it's pretty desperate to reach for that when it started with more or less: "Android has ads and Google watches everything you do on it"

Samuel_Michon 14y ago
"it's pretty desperate to reach for that when it started with more or less: "Android has ads and Google watches everything you do on it"" That might've been your interpretation, but I wrote: "Android users pay with their personal information and by looking at ads." By which I mean a typical Android experience. Not the Android OS, or the official Google Android experience. Most Android users are subjected to lots of ads because they don't buy apps; they download ad-supported apps. They don't buy third party navigation apps, they use the ad-supported Google Maps app. Etc etc.