• iustitia@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    Google. I never said otherwise and it doesn’t change anything about what I or THO said.

    • Tony Bark@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      Fine. But you can’t obviously say Android is somehow better at privacy when its biggest contributor to the code and ecosystem is a fucking indecisive ad company.

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        1 year ago

        Then Linux is spyware trash because the largest contrabuters are corporations. 🤦🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️

        Your logic makes no sense.

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        An evaluation of good or bad an OS is for privacy should first and firemost focus on the actual OS, not the biggest contributer. It is an important point, and it would be way way more important if Android wasn’t open source. But it is, and it can easily be checked by security researchers. So saying Google bad (which I agree with ftr), and everything Google touches bad, would not only exclude you from many open source projects like linux, it would also not be a good aporoach to make a good, informed choice about your digital life.

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          If we judge Android on its own, yes, it can be incredibly safe and secure for its open source abilities. But that conventionally ignores everything else. Google pushes Android forward, Google creates the SDKs, Google creates the IDEs, Google creates all the non-phone variants of the OS. Android isn’t on GitHub, it’s on Google’s servers. “Biggest contributor” is an understatement.

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            conveniently ignores

            Is this about how private and secure the actual usage of the actual OS is, or what?

            • Tony Bark@pawb.social
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              I’ve given up trying to discuss this topic that’s already been downvoted to oblivion, anyway. But, if you’re curious, I was trying to get the point that Android is pretty useless without the whole Infrastructure Google built, but they kept making it about ASOP. As if the average Joe even knows what that is.

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                1 year ago

                You realize the “average joe” is not the target audience of this content right?
                Do realize what platform you’re on.

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                    And You believe their marketing?
                    Maybe instead of that, you read their Privacy Policies and TOS; see for yourself.