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Note that telemetry is not spyware. We could argue if it is somehow malware if there's no way to disable it, but not spyware if used to:
- report crashes
- collect and send anonymous reports, like usage patterns within an app
In that respect we (outside China) use google services to do that.
Chinese people use other service providers. Baidu push service is common to perform bug reports in mainland China.
The important stuff is what the program tracks, not which service is used to deliver what's tracked. One can use Firebase to report a bug or to report all installed applications in a device. In the same vein it can use baidu push service. In the case of google nobody will say "it's phoning china", but if used to steal user data it is the same spyware with or without pushing that data to chinese servers.
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