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partiallypro on June 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

So iOS and Android are spyware? Apps that collect telemetry are spyware? Where do you draw the line?

Karunamon on June 13, 2016 [–]

I'm not sure what your point is. If the problem is that most of our OSes now contain spyware, by any objective definition of the word, that is an accurate statement.

I "draw the line" at the definition I gave in the previous post. Where's the off switch?

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