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I think it is good that we have a non-Google, non-Apple OS for mobile phones out there though I am guessing that the surveillance state will be in full operation in Harmony OS as well.

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The reason Huawei has a distinct non-Google Android flavour poisons the whole endeavour. Huawei is registered on the US Entity List.

You can have the surveillance gulag of Google, or the surveillance gulag of the CCP. Pick your poison.

https://grapheneos.org/ Which has it's own set of issues, but there are choices.

I am way too much of a small fry for the CCP to give a single fuck about me.

Google, on the other hand, can have a massive influence on my day to day life.

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