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throwaway99blns commented on Google Fights Back   stratechery.com/2019/goog... · Posted by u/tchalla
loudtieblahblah · 6 years ago
Google is already not Google.

The "Don't Be Evil" corporation that valued open source rather than open-washing, that valued openstandards over "oops, we didn't mean to break that for you!" isn't here anymore.

The company that bends over backwards, much farther than the law requires, to enable the surveillance state.

I despise Apple. Especially on mobile. No SDCards, no headphone jack, walled garden app stores. Ugh ugh ugh.

I have applications that does E2E for contacts and calendars that I'll have to find an iOS solution for.

I loathe the notch.

But my next phone will be an iPhone.

Google collects so much absurd amount of data - that all the Proton-mail, DuckduckGo, Wire/Signal, Firefox (loaded with adblocking and tracking plugins) apps in the world can't keep you totally from it as long as you're on Android. You disable things, you opt out of stuff and it just keeps on collecting anyways.

And i don't believe for a second the data they're allowing you to "autodelete" genuinely gets deleted. It just gets removed from your view.

throwaway99blns · 6 years ago
And i don't believe for a second the data they're allowing you to "autodelete" genuinely gets deleted. It just gets removed from your view.

This came many times before and it is incorrect. If you delete your data from google, it is deleted permanently. Deletion of multiple backups takes longer, but eventually it is gone, forever.

Disclaimer: Googler.

u/throwaway99blns

KarmaCake day6May 8, 2019View Original