Linux Enters The Privacy Debate

Description

A four-panel reaction meme shows characters reacting with escalating disbelief, each labeled as a major technology platform. The top-left panel says "Microsoft : Wait, I can explain," the top-right says "Google You spy through the whole OS? I only spy the web," the bottom-left says "Apple : Your users know that you are spying?" and the bottom-right says "Linux: You guys are spying?" The joke frames Microsoft, Google, and Apple as surveillance-heavy ecosystems while Linux appears confused by the idea of built-in user tracking. It is a broad operating-system and platform-privacy satire rather than a specific exploit or implementation bug.

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DataPrivacy PrivacyConcerns OnlinePrivacy SurveillanceCapitalism OperatingSystems Microsoft Google Apple Linux LinuxVsWindows OpenSource TechIndustrySatire IndustryIrony

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Linux telemetry is mostly a forum thread where someone asks why you enabled telemetry.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Linux telemetry is mostly a forum thread where someone asks why you enabled telemetry.
Deleted Account 3y

I don't use Arch btw
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y

💀😂
@Box_of_the_Fox 3y

Google is also spying through OS
@Box_of_the_Fox 3y

And with the one that's the most popular in the world xd
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y

Pls edit it to be real: Google uses GMS (Google Mobile Services or formerly known as Google Play Services) to have a whole place to store your activity and stuff that got spied about you. The problem is it uses apis that allow apps that volunteer to communicate with gms and leaks data out of the app’s sandbox (work even on AOSP) because this inter-app connection is based on both apps voluntary implemented feature. Now you think that no app would volunteer for such a data leak. Guess what, to use basic things that work on google play services like redirecting to store or checking for purchased licenses or voice to text transcription, auto correct or whatever else, you must add a library to your app that bloats it and makes it voluntarily connect and expose data to the gms main app. Even better if you disallowed microphones or file access for the app sandbox it still can get stuff passed from gms to the app or the other way around (if you disallow that for gms it will bypass it with any app that has file access and passes the stuff over from that sandbox). So google technically can even spy you on the OS level even if your os is open source and debloated and has no OS level backdoors. Google play servuces got you covered
1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  Make sure that all this text is visible in the meme /s
no name 3y

Linux is the kernel, Canonical is company who maintains one specific distro 🤓🤓🤓
1. @RiedleroD 3y
  
  linux is the genre, canonical is the band and ubuntu is the song
2. @Nefrace 3y
  
  Still using Arch btw
@casalsaquiles 3y

The spy're in the hardware lol