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>>kotaKa+(OP)
How did we let this happen?

Oh, yes... Actually I remember: it was a long slow series of accepting small artificial restrictions. I remember people laughing at me at the time. They said it won't matter, they didn't care, that I was paranoid...

Now... Here we are.

>>marcod+kK
and don't forget all the people with the dismissive remarks about how it didn't affect them on their Graphene or Calyx phones. We're all downstream of something. The real product of Android for us was always the interoperability with the normal world for the tinkerer.

>>WorldP+tP
>their Graphene or Calyx phones

An important reminder: if your escape hatch is an economic irrelevancy, it might as well not exist.

See: Google search with '-ai'.

>>windwa+zO1
Though the founders don't stand for it, they unintentionally exist to capture the most vocal people and diverge them from the norm such that the uninformed consumer has no defenses. It's as if the kinds of people who would support the civil liberty charity said "to hell with it" and founded their own parallel society.