Ricaz

I'm sure they're hating that 1% of their users is spamming /r/place with bot visits, but I think you have to realize that there's no "fight" to be won and reddit definitely isn't facing any type of demise.

If you like Lemmy, help improve it and stop talking about reddit.

In my understanding, the metrics tracked by just having Google Play services are pretty minimal.

It's more like an API between your phone and apps you install through it, and the permission system for apps has improved immensely over the past 5-10 years. As I see it, it's more like a firewall.

If you don't want Google to know which apps you use and how much, you can go full custom, but that's a bit too much tinfoil for me.

The tracking is mostly from web browsing. If you use Google Chrome, of course you can expect to be tracked based on browser history, cookies, etc., like most other browsers.

If I wanna do something in private, obviously I won't use Chrome or a builtin browser.

There are lots of privacy oriented Android flavors out there. Most of them won't come with Google Play services installed. Any of them will be able to run any apps you need.

In my opinion, Google isn't bad at all when it comes to tracking and bloatware. They're much like Apple. It's the branded phones like Samsung that are absolutely horrible.

Anyway, check out the LineageOS Wiki: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

It can give a quick overview of the devices which can easily install a custom ROM (OS). I heard good things about Fairphone

Woah

Genocide or bukkake?

Can't tell if this is a joke. Couldn't he be a.. Firefox?

Sure do, and they're not nearly as prevalent where I live. Almost beyond comparison

Like USA?

This happened to me once. Definitely a big highlight of my pooping career.

Abuse, violence, gambling and drugs. American?

It's kinda unfair to compare with pacman as it by nature does way less than the rest, given that Arch is bleeding edge and doesn't have the same kind of dependency hell that other package managers have to struggle with.