• Aux@feddit.uk
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    24 days ago

    Can you use Google Pay you paid for? No. Can you use Google Maps you paid for? No. The list goes on. That’s unless you only want to browse Lemmy and post silly memes all day.

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      24 days ago

      I didn’t pay for any Google bullshit and barely use anything of theirs these days. I paid for the hardware. There are literally full custom roms that sandbox and/or disable their junk

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        24 days ago

        You did pay for everything, you just decided you won’t use the features you paid for. Your loss.

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          24 days ago

          No they didn’t. Google doesn’t allocate money out of the Android phone sale for any of these services.

          These services make money by making you the product. They don’t make money unless you use it.