Reply to post: Why worry?

Android OS vendor variants transmit data with no opt-out

Lorribot

Why worry?

If you use Google Chrome, Google search, gmail and any other G product why worry about a few more bits of info going to Google from your phone? Google know more about you and your life than you will ever remember. Microsoft removed 33 Google services when the Edgified Chromium, these were baked in to the core application. (MS not much better than Google, so not a recommendation just highlighting how this Open Source product is tied to Google services like Android)

Get over it or vote with your feet and opt out.

Alterntives may not be as good but you should ask do they function for your every day lives, ie are they good enough?

Governments won't do anything about it as they don't care enough and it won't win votes for them and Google probably share the data with their security services so it is cheap tracking of undesirables for them.

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