Yeah 4% is big enough to get on Google’s radar as a threat. Especially if it’s trending upwards.

This is more than just a few tinfoil hats now.

And yes they’re working on locking bootloaders and also making AOSP less useful

Give them away? Not really, Samsung S series are the same pricing as pixels here where I live. The pixel a is different of course, it’s more like a Samsung FE.

It’s not, it’s easier to visualise one person out of a group of 25 than it is 4 out of a group of 100.

True but we were talking about Google here that’s why I mentioned Gmail. But yes with Microsoft it’s the same. And together they control most of the email accounts in the world.

Yes they are changing gdpr so that training AI on user data becomes “legitimate use” and won’t need opt in approval (though there may or may not be an opt out(

https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-commission-wants-wreck-core-gdpr-principles

Also many other principles are being removed. It’s basically a surrender to Trump and his big tech buddies

Well yeah but then the mails your receive from Gmail users or the ones you send to are still captured unless they have opted out. Which you can’t see without asking.

And the EU is dropping its protection against unwanted AI training 🤬🤬🤬

I don’t agree. Calling it a buzzword diminishes the terrible things that are happening in the world. There’s really a lot of parallels to the 1930s which is really worrying because the 1930s led to the 1940s.