You can make a very rational case for each privacy invasive technical decision ever made.
In the end, the fact remain: no chatgpt app without giving up your privacy, to google none the less.
In the end, the fact remain: no chatgpt app without giving up your privacy, to google none the less.
Of course as Google doesn't claim they do this, many people would consider it unreasonably fearful/cynical.
That's the opposite stance that would be bonkers.
Google and Apple are both heavily invested in ads (apple made 4.7 billion from ads in 2022), they have a track record of exfiltrating your data (remember contractors listening to your siri recordings?), of lying to the customers (remember the home button scandal on iPhone?), have control over a device that have your whole life yet runs partially on code you can't evaluate.
Trusting those people makes no sense at all. You have a business relationship with them, that's it.
Yes? I mean, not "leaks" - it's designed to upload your private data to Google and others.
https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/study-reveals-scale-...
> Even when minimally configured and the handset is idle, with the notable exception of e/OS, these vendor-customised Android variants transmit substantial amounts of information to the OS developer and to third parties such as Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Facebook that have pre-installed system apps. There is no opt-out from this data collection.