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Given the amounts involved likely as a single McDonalds meal voucher per recipient.

That won't be true for everyone. Why should we just accept less privacy?

Unfortunately 90% of useful apps aren't on F-Droid.

Probably not much point in disabling that. Disabling downloads from other machines on the web makes more sense if you have a data cap or are charged per MB, which is common in some…

The ironic part is that people have just become accustomed to (or ignorant of) the way data is gathered from your average Android phone. Everyone is upset about Win10, but little a…

The guide shows how to disable sending updates from your computer to other computers on your LAN or on the Internet. It doesn't suggest disabling updates anywhere...

Maybe some small businesses don't care, but the people whose data they are handling might not agree with that stance.

Because every small business uses Win10 enterprise?

It's one of two pieces of information he is claiming to have have learned. It's relevant as it narrows down the list of suspects somewhat.

I doubt there are enough people who care. Google has already proved that seemingly benevolent spying is a highly profitable business model. Most people aren't bothered, or even kno…

> Compared to my Android phone Windows 10 is absolutely mute. I think this says more about Android than it does about Windows 10. Windows 10 has crazy defaults, but so does android…

It would be fantastic if Jetbrains was building an IDE for Rust somewhere in their basement. One can only hope...

Why does the article title lead with the nationality of the company?

> Because there is a difference between "can voluntarily use" and "is rammed down your throat". I got gmail rammed down my throat pretty hard when I needed to install an app from t…

>> updates hadn't installed automatically because Windows Update was too busy advertising Windows 10 > That does not make much sense, if any. I saw exactly the same thing. The enti…

You have to know that your privacy defaults are batshit crazy when people start developing tools to automate correcting them.

I've currently got a system with the Windows 10 downloaded, but I am hesitant to actually proceed with the (up?)grade. Like many people I assumed that it was just the same old Wind…

Until recently Microsoft had taken a far more reasonable approach to privacy than say Google. Anyone remember the MS "gmail man" ads mocking the way Google inspects your email when…

Very few people will read the privacy terms. Just because they have a document people clicked 'agree' below without reading doesn't mean that MS should not be held to account for w…

Apple demonstrates that it's possible to keep devices up to date, an example which the Android manufacturers could emulate.

I'm not suggesting that it's Google's fault (well other than forcing OEMs to shove Google stuff down my throat). It's a general complaint about the android ecosystem as a whole. Ev…

It's not just the operators. If an Android phone is more than 12 months old manufacturers simply stop providing updates, and even if they did they'd have to wait for the operators …

That doesn't help for 99.9% of Android devices out there (including mine) which aren't Nexus phones, and will only receive 1 or 2 updates, usually within 12 months of purchase and …

I read your original reply before you deleted it, which made it clear that you had misread my post, in particular you missed the word "economy" in "...where the US economy is reduc…

> First off, you should be ashamed at how ridiculous that analogy is. The analogy looks spot-on to me, just substitute 'Zim' for 'US' and 'Harare' for 'New York'.