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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 713279">Android seems to vary depending on vendor, builds and other factors. Also it depends on the &#039;apps&#039; installed to a huge extent. Is a VANILLA Android OS more privacy than Windows 10? I think so based on our tests, Windows 10 is an absolute privacy catastrophe IMO. However once you start installing apps on Android and enabling permissions and such Android can become a mess as well. Chromebooks are immeasurably less &#039;chatty&#039; compared to Windows 10 as long as you select NOT to help Google with the OS and disable a few things in the browser.For Android, IMO the trick is to limit yourself to the very minimum of &#039;needed&#039; applications. Restrict Permissions of Apps. Disable unneeded background processes. Then you aren&#039;t too bad. If you want to take it even further, disable core-apps like GoogleMaps, install third party ones with reduced permissions to &#039;spread&#039; your risk out a bit more from on firm controlling everything. You can install a no-root Firewall and control things even more, disable background data use, etc.. Maybe install a microphone block application and an adblocking app and you should be good. It all depends on what level you want to take it and how much you care about all of it I guess.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 713279"] Android seems to vary depending on vendor, builds and other factors. Also it depends on the 'apps' installed to a huge extent. Is a VANILLA Android OS more privacy than Windows 10? I think so based on our tests, Windows 10 is an absolute privacy catastrophe IMO. However once you start installing apps on Android and enabling permissions and such Android can become a mess as well. Chromebooks are immeasurably less 'chatty' compared to Windows 10 as long as you select NOT to help Google with the OS and disable a few things in the browser. For Android, IMO the trick is to limit yourself to the very minimum of 'needed' applications. Restrict Permissions of Apps. Disable unneeded background processes. Then you aren't too bad. If you want to take it even further, disable core-apps like GoogleMaps, install third party ones with reduced permissions to 'spread' your risk out a bit more from on firm controlling everything. You can install a no-root Firewall and control things even more, disable background data use, etc.. Maybe install a microphone block application and an adblocking app and you should be good. It all depends on what level you want to take it and how much you care about all of it I guess. [/QUOTE]

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