Re: What can't you do on Android WITHOUT a Google Account set up in the OS?

R.Wieser <address@is.invalid> wrote:

Newyana2,

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I'm amazed that these companies are allowed, legally, to exert such
control over a device I paid for.

 
I hope you're not running Win10/11, which has become nothing more than a
thick ethernet client and doubling as an advertising platform. :-)

  This is not a Windows group, so let's not drift too much, but you
still can use Windows 10 and 11 without a Microsoft account and if you
answer no to all the 'prying' questions or/and set all 'prying' settings
to off, you get *no* ads, not from Microsoft, nor from any other
company. *Unless* of course, you're an paranoid American, because then
you deserve to get what you spread FUD, urban legends, etc. about! :-)

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