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Google has awaken the vengeful beast! (media.piefed.social)
submitted 1 day ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca
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Ironically sourced from google trends data.

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[–] trajekolus@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What could have caused the spike in interest?

[–] Hexarei@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

My guess would be the upcoming changes to installing apps from apps on Android

[–] rmrf@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

It seems to correlate with a drop in graphene OS searches (after its own sudden spike)

Perhaps a lot of people read about the uncertainty in Graphene's future and started learning about alternatives