Yes

Use F-Droid apps. Since most Google store apps contain trackers. Then use ClassyShark to check trackers.

PRISM

PRISM

Use F-Droid, Google store is a malware vendor at this point.

All cool. It’s just sad that Netscape succeeded putting open source on the same bag as free software.

These are good reads:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-intro.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

By mentioning AT&T I’m talking about the sue against BSD on 90’s (which started a limbo for a lot of open source software developed at universities). That sue started the free software movement ( that is usually mistaken by open source) and all the *nix derivates. For example foundation of FSF, GPL License, GNU, Linux, etc.

Then on 20’s Google wanted to implement a similar software development scheme, but with the possibility of making privative any piece of software as they wish without further notice. So they created an open source license (that doesn’t protect the software) and spread the concept around the world.

Now we get surprised when Google suddenly makes private a part of source code that it’s designed to implement DRM measures on the web. But we knew that this was going to happen.

We already seen this behavior on the AT&T vs. BSD sue. But well, only humans fall 3 times on the same stone.

Free software licences were created to solve this problem. Yet their meaning has been forgotten, and companies have spread open source as the “right” movement just because it benefits them, but not the user.

Gotta love the open source licences (when we have libre licences). At least Google stand as a good example on why open source licences are not a good option in comparison to free ones (we have BSD vs AT&T too as an example).