{"id":4983,"date":"2018-12-03T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/12\/03\/like-a-drug\/"},"modified":"2018-12-03T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:22:50","slug":"like-a-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/12\/03\/like-a-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I na\u00efvely thought that I wasn&#8217;t so reliant on the &#8220;we have shun our don&#8217;t be evil motto&#8221; organization (hint G00gle).<\/p>\n<p>How fool I was. I didn&#8217;t even have the phone number of my wife saved into my own CardDav address book.<\/p>\n<p>She phoned me to ask about  my sprained ankle and my phone didn&#8217;t even recognised her call.<\/p>\n<p>The tittle of this piece maybe excessive. I suspect that many proprietary services are similar. Until a few days ago I shunned the golden prison of Apple. Google is no better. Android may be Free Software but being released with a non persistent license it is only instrumental to give Google more power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I na\u00efvely thought that I wasn&#8217;t so reliant on the &#8220;we have shun our don&#8217;t be evil motto&#8221; organization (hint G00gle). How fool I was. I didn&#8217;t even have the phone number of my wife saved into my own CardDav address book. 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