• narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    It is quite ironic. “I don’t like Google, let me free myself from all of Google. But to do that first let me buy that $500-$1,000 phone made by Google to then get rid of all the Google software on it”.

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        2 months ago

        I still think if I was strictly anti Google that would imply giving them not a single dime.

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          2 months ago

          I don’t really have a stake in this race because it’s quite a dilemma (personally I like the idea of Graphene supporting more devices with varying security promises) but I’d imagine between buying a 2nd hand Pixel or exclusively using Google services, Google would rather people do the latter.

          They simply make more out of data gathering and GrapheneOS sidessteps that, so as a user I’m leaning towards the former so I can more readily degoogle myself.

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        2 months ago

        Well if you’re influenced by ads then absolutely. I’m not sure how much money does it make from techy people like us. It definitely makes something.

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      2 months ago

      To be fair, there’s an argument to be made that “I’ll just pay Google one last time in order to get my privacy back.”