Yeah, I find the world of Android software to be a wee bit disturbing. It is definitely a huge shift from Windows where there is a tonne of free software that doesn't try to monetize users (through advertising, data mining, or other means). It is a gargantuan step from traditional Linux systems where most of the software is free in every sense of the word.

I'm not sure that I like this new world of computers, a world where I have to monitor my internet connection just to figure out what the heck vendors are up to.