Alexa or Facebook: their usefulness is only a byproduct of privacy invasion. They need these information in order to complete their services.

In tech, there’s no way for a big company to not lie because marketers have no real understanding of they are selling.

Every relation with a commercial entity is, by essence, temporary. I pay for a service with strings attached. If the service degrade, if my conditions are not respected, I stop paying.

Androidification is not about degrading the user experience. It’s about closing doors, removing special use cases, being less and less transparent. [...] Android was, at first, an Open Source project. With each release, it became more closed, more proprietary. [...] Besides the Linux kernel, Google was always wary not to include any GPL or LGPL licensed library in Android.