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swiley on March 30, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Andro...

I've always thought of them as "endpoints for deploying cooperate software into your life" but this is also a pretty good description.

amelius on March 30, 2021 [–]

The iPhone is basically a vending machine for entertainment, owned by Apple and paid for by you.

tehjoker on March 31, 2021 | [–]

Often it is a slot machine as well.

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