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The root issue isn't quality, it's the security issues with backdoors to the Chinese government.
Maybe you don't care about your own data. But companies, hospitals, and financial institutions do.
Okay and what's the difference between US companies stealing my data? I'm not American yet American companies are forever stealing my data.
I'll just stop buying anything then
Pervasiveness of the breach. China or the NSA would be in advanced persistent threat category of threats where you could just sue Google (a monumental task but more than you could even get China or NSA to acknowledge your complaint.
As an average person I am just as capable as suing China for data theft as I am Google. I can't do either.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-settles-5-billion-consumer-privacy-lawsuit-2023-12-28/
Monumental but not impossible