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    19 hours ago

    Uneducated answer

    Proofs? Their privacy policy, the fact that Google is an advertising company, the fact that the “data sharing” of iOS gets leaked regularly and they’re never sold basically

    They collect data, but they either use it for recommendations if you’ve enabled (or rather not disabled) that, else they use it for insight and telemetry to get anonymous or pseudonymous with limited lifespan usage data

    Obviously, anything non E2EE going to USA servers can be considered compromised and in this context, yea, it’s bad, but it’s not all of it and Google phones a lot more data home

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        18 hours ago

        Depends what you mean by trust

        If you mean trust that they won’t sell, then yes

        If you purely mean security, then Google is better imo

        But my beliefs aren’t just based on my preferences. I hate both.

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          18 hours ago

          To follow up, on your responses for me both boxes check off equally but not so much as selling as to who they give that information to. You have to setup so much shit and make sure your hardware is air tight to have true privacy. I bet every device you use all of them no matter who you buy it from or what OS it runs, will have a backdoor. It’s futile to do all that work when you think using Tor or I2P or whatever protocol you use for network traffic and not use cellular and disable GPS and use only use secure comms when everything has a backdoor.