> Why would the Google app have more spyware than the Translate app?
It's a different app on top of the first app? I don't understand the question.
> Regardless of what you think of Google, the reason a feature lives in one app and not another is not to increase spying...
That's why google has apps at all.... They're a spyware company. That—and depriving users of honest transactions—is much of their business model. Especially post transition to Alphabet.
>> Why would the Google app have more spyware than the Translate app?
> It's a different app on top of the first app? I don't understand the question.
It's irrelevant if it's a different app or a different tab in the same app as far as "spyware" would be concerned.
2 apps by the same company doesn't increase data collection compared to 1 app, if they're installed on the same phone. It's not like Google gets twice as much location data... the number of apps is entirely irrelevant.
> It's irrelevant if it's a different app or a different tab in the same app as far as "spyware" would be concerned.
It's only irrelevant in the technical sense of "could we collect this data if we had another app". It's not irrelevant in terms of hedging against uninstalling.
It's a different app on top of the first app? I don't understand the question.
> Regardless of what you think of Google, the reason a feature lives in one app and not another is not to increase spying...
That's why google has apps at all.... They're a spyware company. That—and depriving users of honest transactions—is much of their business model. Especially post transition to Alphabet.