If I buy a new Android phone, odds are it is not one which makes me a Google customer - i.e. Google gets none of the proceeds should I purchase a Samsung Galaxy.

The only means by which Google profits is by monetizing data leaking from my device. And my WiFi password is something potentially monetizable. When choosing between ignorance and malice as motivations, it is perhaps proper to choose ignorance even with Google. When choosing between my privacy interests and Google's monetary interests, it seems naive to place my privacy interests above those of Google's actual customers.

An American corporation is determined to be part of the military-industrial complex; film at 11.

By that logic, they shouldn't make the Android OS at all - they don't get any money for it!

> The only means by which Google profits is by monetizing data leaking from my device.

You have no idea what you're talking about. It directly profits from sales on the Play Store(apps, movies, TV shows, magazines, music) and advertisement clicks. They also benefit from building better user profiles, so they can better target advertisements.

or a factory reset.