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oliwarner ◴[] No.35323842[source]
I left Windows in a hail of Vista bugs, over a decade ago. I've seen it get worse and worse in that time, both in UX rot and anti-consumer "features".

I'm almost impressed with what people willingly put up with.

Not here to eulogize over what I moved to, but I think it's important people consider why they're still using Windows. It's not your friend.

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EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK ◴[] No.35324039[source]
It took me 10 minutes to run w10privacy to remove all the telemetry and spyware from Windows. It took me hours fiddling with adb to partially remove some of evilness from my android phone. Dont know much about iOS, but I've heard they dont even have an adb equivalent.
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1. oliwarner ◴[] No.35338996[source]
I'm not sure you can compare fresh installs of Windows to OEM installs of Android. A relative once got a low end Asus laptop that was so entirely bogged down with bundled crap it couldn't get past the firstrun setup. I had to do a fresh install.

Android OEMs do the same. Some are worse (looking at you, Samsung) and do horrible things to stock images in the interest of service integration and capturing long tail software sales. You could argue Google does the same over a AOSP-level base image with Google Search/Play.

Things like LineageOS give a clean android experience, but it's hardware dependant.

And call me old fashioned, but scrombling onto Google to find w10privacy, download it, unzip and run it as an admin kinda sounds like the hell the Windows XP era community got into with adware removers just installing more adware. You can buy the first spot on Google. Much rather see a Github page, source, releases, etc.