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Why do you make the assumption that anything that's not Google is infested with spyware?

The Google proprietary stuff, and some of the free parts in Android are also already spyware. But adding an additional layer of proprietary software is just no good for the user :-)

I mean, I can also rant about CyanogenMod using oCLock (or whatever it is called) that sends by default your exact GPS locations over HTTP (not HTTPS!) to Yahoo.

Allowing Samsung to put their own stuff on top will just not improve anything for the user, it will improve stuff for Samsung, but I don't care about that.

Not necessarily on top. Samsung can already layer more stuff on top, but this would enable Samsung to replace things. Now, yes, that might be exchanging Google spyware with Samsung spyware, but at least you can choose who's spying on you? (Using different services for different things can help keep all of your data off a single profile, at least.)

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