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The issue with Android

Oalways fun, but escaping the Borg on mobile deserves a treatment all of its own. From the moment you put your Google Account credentials into the setup screen, your phone/tablet/TV stick starts feeding data to Google’s silos. Search history, GPS location history, call logs, contacts and much more are by default shared with the company. Its PR outlets boldly claim that it doesn’t sell this data, but it does use it to sell highly

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