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If you're not paying for it, you are the product; except for with ๐ and then it's both.
they did pay 1000$+ phones just to have ads on it.
Just like every Android phone that comes pre-loaded with trash apps you have to delete.
Only in the USA, I think. I'm in the UK and don't have 'trash apps'.
Unless you mean Facebook and YouTube, thinking about it, which yeah is annoying.
i bought a min OP12R, i had delete a couple apps i dont use on it. A carrier issued phone has even worst bloat. I just disabled most of the google ones, like play, and WALLET because it kept activating tag (fare machine)on public transport, i had to do a work around since there wasnt an easy way to completely eliminate that.
They didn't say literally anything about Android or Google...
Idk what you're talking about, I program my own OSs in assembly language and solder my own hardware from e-waste. Get gud normie.
Fair enough.
Open Street Maps doesn't do any of this bullshit.
Oh, well, if Google does it then it must be okay.