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Call it what you like but as all software has bugs it's not a particularly useful differentiator.

What I'm curious about is why closed software seems to get such a rough ride on the privacy front compared to services such as Facebook, Google Search and Gmail which are business models which don't leak data incidentally, but piss it up against a wall as a fundamental and entirely necessary part of how they work.

Facebook gets a tough time but Google it feels to me gets off very lightly.



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