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WOW Awesome!! Android is so freedom that freedom until they cannot reset ad ID! wow this is the freedom I want!

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And the alternative is? iOS? Apple is also tracking its users, to a greater extent even.

At least on Android you can still block ads, block internet access to apps you don't trust and flash custom ROMs.

You can turn off tracking on iOS:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/11/16/appl...

Tracking should be opt-in, not opt-out.

yes the so-called walled system DO let user to reset ad if and switch off tracking. While to so-called freedom system doesn’t do any of this.

I will see this as hypocritical

Your English is hard to understand. But you can reset the ID in Android too.

> And the alternative is? iOS?

No, the alternative is GNU/Linux phones.

so, PinePhone and stay away from any and all google services?

Or Librem 5. Google Services are proprietary. It's indeed better to stay away from them.

Many Android apps should work in Anbox nevertheless.

I have a huawei with no google services on it and I never go to Chinese sites. It's stupid but I feel less watched with China getting my data than with a normal android :D

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No, Apple is not tracking its users to a greater extent. You wish that were true, clearly, but you can't support it. As for "flashing custom ROMs", well, if you could support your main argument, you wouldn't be trying to change the subject three times.

Here's the same in iOS: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaints-against-apples-trac...

Besides you can reset it as you would know if you read TFA.

a) no, not the same thing b) no, not being used the same way by Apple, so not comparable c) this is 5 months old and pre-dates Apple's current privacy initiatives

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