What makes you "trust" Microsoft in the first place? They are spying on users constantly with Windows 10 telemetry, they were an early part of the PRISM program with the NSA, they have been known to abuse their market power to push away competitors. What's to trust about them?
>Using ChromeOS or Android with Googleplex as gateway for every mouse movement or click is tenfold worse than using Windows 10.
Is it?
Did somebody compile data on Android telemetry already?
Anyway, ChromeOS is a wash, but you can always remove Google software from an Android installation (well, more like flash a new AOSP installation but eh) which is 100% worlds better than any Microsoft software offering, in my opinion.
Yeah but that's the Firebase Messaging System, AKA Google Cloud Messaging, which doesn't exist in your phone if you flash a AOSP ROM.
Of course, for maximum privacy, an open source with minimal blobs ROM like Replicant would be much better. Shame 2011 era hardware in mobile land is so much relatively inferior to laptop land (e.g. X200 with Libreboot)
Again, you can't do this in Windows 10. The telemetry and "add-in apps" get installed again periodically after updates [0] last I checked
Why are you being so hostile? You're in HN, you're a geek too by default.
99% of Windows 10 users can't grok disabling telemetry and trawling deep into powershell script every update too.
(Well, at least Microsoft doesn't think disabling excessive features to be warranty disabling, for now...)
What I discussed was how a proactive, technically competent user can wrestle Android back into having 0 Google telemetry and spying, which... Can't happen in Chrome OS, or say for example Windows Phone 10 (RIP).
Because as someone with experience in UI/UX for the common man, I dislike the way many geeks present technical solutions that are out of reach to those people.
These kind of solutions is one of the reasons why desktop Linux never really took off, rather Android, ChromeOS, Tizen and such, where the presence of the Linux kernel is a mere implementation detail, as it could be changed by any other POSIX like kernel without any difference on the user experience.
We should strive for solutions that work for everyone, not the tiny percentage of proactive, technically competent users that know about HN and XDA.
I understand what you mean, but I think it would be more correct to say "I don't distrust them as much as ...". None of these companies deserve a positive spin on "trust".
I don't know what the proper term is, but there's a certain trust of necessity at play. You have to pick some OS vendor to trust, or at least trust more than the others, because you need an OS.
