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many of you hate Google yet I'm willing to bet most of you flashed a custom or foss android rom like lineageos to your devices.
"I hate Google and their dropping useful products and stalking me constantly," I post from my Pixel 3A while listening to YouTube Music.
Exactly, and I don't think Google really gives a shit what you do anyway, they just want to shelp your data to their ad partners. But any free open source software or hardware has value independent of the company that creates it. Degoogled chromium, FOSSized android rom Pixels, YouTube in browser with ublock, it's not hard to remove Google/Microsoft etc from the equation and get a useful product if there's one there.