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Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What about privacy though? Google runs an ad network, so clearly they have financial incentive to spy hard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So does Apple, the difference being they grabbed it all to themselves. This is why they have "no tracking" options, to seal competition off while selling themselves as the privacy champions and also selling their in house ad solution. That and the fact that they worked with the government behind users back, and having a shoddy work to secure their OS.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56995192

https://www.vox.com/recode/23045136/apple-app-tracking-transparency-privacy-ads

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/iphone-privacy-feature-hiding-wi-fi-macs-has-failed-to-work-for-3-years/

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/hackers-can-id-unique-apple-airdrop-users-chinese-authorities-claim-to-do-just-that/

Apple is not any better than Meta, they just lie better.