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Look I never said I disagree. My point to OP is just please don't make up shit that straight up isn't true. Pick a real issue, not some made up paranoia.

Re 1: People keep lumping Google with Amazon and Meta, but Google does not sell your private data and alerts you if it finds out the government to accessed your data. People keep assuming that because the general tech community sells data that Google does it too, but check their privacy policy or just ask anyone who's worked there. They don't.

User data at Google is locked up tighter than fort knox. That's why the Snowden leak was such a huge deal, because the NSA was taking advantage of a security flaw that Google didn't know it had to scrape user data. Google patched it immediately after they found out.

Amazon, Meta, and Uber, are much less scrupulous.

It is designed with privacy as an intent. It's right on their home page, they say the data never leaves your phone. It's in their privacy policy too. Those are legally binding.

TIL there are like no women on lemmy

They'd have to block all investment platforms. Even ETrade and Chase have ads like that.

FWIW, if it's privacy you're worried about, you can download the APK and decompile it. Shouldn't be hard to verify it's not phoning home.

I've tried a few journaling apps on F-Droid but ultimately couldn't find anything as good as Daylio.

Absolutely agree, you're preaching to the choir

FWIW I don't really like tech companies in general. They're monopolies.

That said, I really admire Google's environmental policies. I worry a lot about global warming and habitat destruction. They're doing better than any other tech company on that front.

Other companies will just lie about their emissions. Like Amazon claiming it's 100% renewable (it's not even close). Google has been honest and clear with it's emissions numbers since the beginning. And it has never been afraid to call out when they were wrong. For example, they recently updated their numbers when they realized one of their accounting methods was wrong. No other company has kept themselves as honest as Google on environmental things.

It's a big company with 170k employees. I can name a million examples of it doing shitty things. Like shutting down Inbox. But the environment is far more important to me than some product I didn't pay for.

Because security through obscurity is not security at all.

Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/homeless-man-vs-corporate-thief/

It's true, but note that Allan received a reduced sentence for testifying against the actual mastermind of the fraud, who got 30 years.

I've been a big fan of monorepos because it leads to more consistent style and coding across the whole company. It makes the code more transparent so you can see what's going on with the rest of the company, too, which helps reduce code islands and duplicated work. It enables me to build everything from source, which helps catch bugs that would only show up in prod due to version drift. It also means that I can do massive refactorings across the company without breaking anything.

That said, tooling is slowly improving for decentralized repos, so some of these may be doable on git now/soon.