Comment by charcircuit
11 hours ago
It would be cheaper to just buy all of the outliers a bottom of the barrel Android phone for them to use with the tax money.
11 hours ago
It would be cheaper to just buy all of the outliers a bottom of the barrel Android phone for them to use with the tax money.
Yes just like it’s cheaper to just provide people who can’t afford a phone in the US a phone by taxing other cell phone users - and I don’t have a problem with that.
And force them into the Google surveillance, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261
Collecting telemetry is not the same thing as surveillance. Using such vocabulary to describe what a phone does is both misleading and manipulating, playing into the angle of scaremongering people who do not want to be survived.
It really doesn't matter. When you power on an android smartphone with google play installed for the first time you are presented with a gate screen that asks you to consent to google's privacy policy. You can't use the phone without accepting. (for example https://forum.fairphone.com/t/finalising-the-setup-wizard-wi...)
Using smartphones with such a setup should not become required by a European government on a fundamental level.
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So please tell us what the difference is.
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Are you a lobbyist for Google, Apple, Meta, or the adtech industry? Because if you aren't, you are parroting their bullshit.
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