"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 yo

"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.