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Apple Explains Why It Doesn't Plan to Create a Search Engine (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In order to create a "viable" search engine business, Apple would be required to "sell targeted advertising," which is "not a core business" for the company and would go against its "longstanding privacy commitments."

Not a CORE business. Hmmmmm.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Well, yeah, they hand over everything to Google when using their search engine by default. It's definitely a business for Apple.

They keep their image as privacy friendly, while taking cool cash to let others harvest the data. Stonks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you have an example of this?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. Apple is defaulting Google in their browsers and search in general. Google is paying Apple. Google is using the data they get when people search on Apple products.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

And how does making a google search constitute “handing over everything to Google”?

Especially in your example of the default context when a user is using Safari, which has tracking protection enabled. And possibly using iCloud Relay to anonymize browsing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

By that logic FireFox and pretty much every company is in the same boat