op: https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/ok9vj0/how_interesting/

Found this cached deleted blog post on https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/nupcn0/police_around_the_world_have_been_listening_to/

"Since January 2020, a threat actor has been inserting thousands of malicious servers into the Tor network to identify traffic heading to cryptocurrency mixing websites and perform an SSL stripping attack, which is when traffic is downgraded from an encrypted HTTPS connection to plaintext HTTP.

The belief is that the attacker has been downgrading traffic to HTTP in order to replace cryptocurrency addresses with their own and hijack transactions for their own profit." - https://therecord.media/thousands-of-tor-exit-nodes-attacked-cryptocurrency-users-over-the-past-year/

"One of the more comprehensive fixes we're exploring from the user side is to disable plain HTTP in Tor Browser." - https://blog.torproject.org/bad-exit-relays-may-june-2020

“the Four R’s of Responsibility:” “remove, raise, reduce, reward.”

"Through the lens of advanced data analytics, gaze patterns can reveal much more information than a user wishes and expects to give away. (…) eye tracking data may implicitly contain information about a user’s biometric identity, gender, age, ethnicity, body weight, personality traits, drug consumption habits, emotional state, skills and abilities, fears, interests, and sexual preferences. Certain eye tracking measures may even reveal specific cognitive processes and can be used to diagnose various physical and mental health conditions.”

So they made Android mostly free software. The thing is that at some point they ended up having the biggest market share with operating systems connected to the Internet. So the idea was at this point to make Android non free. But it was already free software, so how do you do that? People can also fork. You do it through the control of google play. They stopped developing many applications in Android and continued developing them in Google Play

edit: a relevant 2018 article - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/