FydeOS for You - Pinebook Pro

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FydeOS for You is a commercial-grade OS produced by Fyde Innovations. Similar to any other .com companies out there, we need to know how FydeOS is performing and how it is being used. Even if you are choosing Google account as your primary account for using FydeOS, there are still many supporting cloud services provided by FydeOS' infra to ensure the OS could function smoothly, OTA updates is one of the examples. We don't want to collect necessary usage data secretly, instead, we are open to inform all FydeOS users that why and how we are doing this and we do this within the boundaries according to our privacy statement.

Also, having every user had a FydeOS account, we can be compliant with GDPR whereby users can request to delete all personal data stored in FydeOS server or request to export them in a flat file  (work-in-progress).

Lastly, FydeOS for You comes with an evaluation license that lasts for a certain period of time. When the evaluation period is about to end, users will be given the option to pay for an extended subscription to utilise undisturbed usage and frequent OTA updates tracking the upstream Chromium project. Although the subscription status is only associating with device ID, users can unlock the "Patron" badge in the FydeOS Community and are able to raise support tickets and enjoy a 24h SLA response from our dedicated support team. You'll need a FydeOS account to do all these.

I hope this justifies having a FydeOS account is not "backward thinking".