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You mean if you opt-in (or haven't opted out), right? I was under the impression this was optional.

But you're an honest, decent citizen with nothing to hide, right? Why would you want to opt out?

And anyway, it's “to improve your experience”, so you can't opt out. It's for your own good. Remember, Big Brother loves you.

Google has a very different definition of optional.

Yes, see how they still tracked Android users' location, despite location setting being turned off.

They have designed the whole android interface to scatter the settings around so it is very difficult to turn off many of the privacy-invasive features. And even if you manage to turn them off, somehow they always end up turning themselves on again.

Everybody working for this company should be ashamed.

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