Well, the way I see it:
If I use any android phone, Google is having a field day with my data, get everything they want and more and the manufacturer will spy on me just as much.
If I use a Google phone, I have effectively halved the amount of companies I’m all too transparent to.
Until recently I had both a Samsung phone and a Samsung tablet. According to my PiHole, the phone wasn’t too bad, but that tablet was contacting Samsung almost constantly
Yes and no. It does use value, yet Google may not be aware that it does, so it doesn’t for them. Besides, the issue is not what your data is worth, it’s that they have it in the first place.
If enough people join in the same behaviour, Google will notice all the data gathering is losing value, and if the value is low enough the effort to gather it should be directed to something else. As a result new data is not gathered.
Google then sells your data to data brokers and anyone willing to pay a pretty penny. In the end it doesnt matter if your device is only bleeding out of the Google hole exclusively because everyone else can just buy it off Google (who probably does a better job at deanonymising and aggregating your data.
Not trying to defend Google, but they don’t actually sell your data. Their ownership of your personal info is their biggest asset, so they wouldn’t easily give that data up to others. Instead. They serve ads to you on behalf of other companies based on their ad targeting criteria.
I dislike Google and their entire business model, but I do at the very least trust them to keep my data captive within their own ecosystem, as hideously enormous as it is.
Well, the way I see it:
If I use any android phone, Google is having a field day with my data, get everything they want and more and the manufacturer will spy on me just as much.
If I use a Google phone, I have effectively halved the amount of companies I’m all too transparent to.
Yeah one of my friend uses s23 and the amount of data that’s being sent to Samsung is crazy. (Found it out through Rethink dns app)
Until recently I had both a Samsung phone and a Samsung tablet. According to my PiHole, the phone wasn’t too bad, but that tablet was contacting Samsung almost constantly
And if I use only ad blockers, all that data losses value.
Yes and no. It does use value, yet Google may not be aware that it does, so it doesn’t for them. Besides, the issue is not what your data is worth, it’s that they have it in the first place.
If enough people join in the same behaviour, Google will notice all the data gathering is losing value, and if the value is low enough the effort to gather it should be directed to something else. As a result new data is not gathered.
Google then sells your data to data brokers and anyone willing to pay a pretty penny. In the end it doesnt matter if your device is only bleeding out of the Google hole exclusively because everyone else can just buy it off Google (who probably does a better job at deanonymising and aggregating your data.
Not trying to defend Google, but they don’t actually sell your data. Their ownership of your personal info is their biggest asset, so they wouldn’t easily give that data up to others. Instead. They serve ads to you on behalf of other companies based on their ad targeting criteria.
I dislike Google and their entire business model, but I do at the very least trust them to keep my data captive within their own ecosystem, as hideously enormous as it is.