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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.
Anyone that claims Apple is stealing their data is drastically misinformed to the point where it feels like a rationalization.
Google does it, Facebook does it, Apple does not. Ask any engineer who works at these companies and they can confirm it.
It is frustrating to Apple engineers with how heavily restricted user data is. There are literally committees at Apple who default to No for any request. They do not profit off your data, they profit off the mark up on hardware and services.
Thinking it’s a both/all sides thing is how much be enabled bad actors. The GOP is an example and anyone who falls for the corporate version is no smarter than anyone who falls for the political version. Luckily, it’s not a lonely place to be.
Common sense is no longer common. Feelings have trumped all logic on the majority of Americans as well as the world population at large.
Apple absolutely does collect personal data from its users and uses that data to target advertising. They openly disclose this in their policy statements.
Stating that
is unjustifiable when Apple makes BILLIONS from advertising.
They also have been fined by European regulators when their practices ran afoul of privacy law.
Just because they’re not as bad as Google (quite a low bar) it doesn’t mean they’re as good as they try to sell you on.
Lesser evil is still lesser evil.
It’s hilarious how the people who choose more evil have such hatred of the lesser evils, it’s like the evil has invaded their monds.
Yeah ask the engineers who work for a company who’s whole schtick is to pretend to be privacy friendly that it does not steal user data. They’ll definitely tell us.
Yeah well, Facebook had an ethics committee too, so they’ve always been ethical then huh?
But but but Apple is different…
Anyone who claims these companies have users best interest at heart are gullible people at best or a cult.
you need more of that “common sense” than using your feelings to dictate what multi billion companies are doing with your data.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/
Yeah of course, they would be very wrong about that.
However, that doesn’t preclude a company from doing a good thing if they think that is what will make them the most money. If Apple’s giant marketing and product apparatus is going through the effort of selling privacy features, then that absolutely tells us they believe their customers care about it, and it suggests it probably goes into their design process. Maybe.
Apple sells walled-garden integration and privacy, but they do not sell openness and interoperability at all. In contrast, Google sells openness and interoperability, but not so much privacy.
Apple makes their money from hardware sales while Google makes their money from advertising. Again it’s consistent, smaller numbers of higher revenue users versus sheer scale.
I don’t trust either of these companies. Admittedly I do have some products from each still in my life that I’m phasing out, while I use a linux PC for most things. But when it comes to Apple in particular, I have to question how many “hurr durr sent from my iphone” jabs are sent from privacy-invading android phones that have multiple giant corporations’ tentacles in their firmware.
Note that given that this is Lemmy, I assume the proportion of comments posted from primarily FOSS devices is 1000x higher than for other sites/apps, I assume many of those comments are from privacy-respecting devices!
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
Become a security research and they will
That is absolute bullshit. I worked for Apple, training Siri. Through false positive we heard unsuspecting people having sex and dealing drugs while their real names and addresses were on the screen.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-agrees-to-95-million-settlement-in-siri-eavesdropping-lawsuit-2000544806
You’re wrong about that, you’re wrong about politics, and you made voting for a genocider your entire personnality. It’s pretty sad really
Siri has always been a mess. That’s not the data this thread is about.
Photos, got any anecdotal bullshit on that?
What kind of moving goalpost is this? “Apple does not harvest your data”. “Uh they absolutely do, they literally (used correctly this time) got caught listening to people” “Nu-uh only pictures”.
You’re an apple idiot aren’t you? Look it’s ok to admit you’ve been dumb as fuck overpaying all these years. We all make mistakes. Think about how scientologists feels.
Lmao I’ve witnessed literal sex cults that were less cultish than an apple campus.
Insulting the person in a internet discussion is an immediate loss.
Keep those emotions in check, it makes you look a fool.
I didn’t insult you sweetie. As I said, we all make mistakes. Just admit you’re been fooled. No dishonor
You called me an “Apple idiot”
I understand you and all the others downvoting me are emotionally invested in my life and that’s cute but that was an insult.
I’m sorry to any involved that had an upbringing where insult and condemnation was consider love and affection. It’s not. Seek therapy. Creating an out group out of Apple users to help yourself feel superior isn’t mentally healthy.
It’s amazing how eerily similar this sort of discussion mimicks those I have with Trump supporters.
I have a working theory that people such as you will suffer the great Fox News brain rot as you age. All the pieces are certainly in place for it.
Won’t someone think of the trillion dollar corporation?
These are the logical fallacies I love to see. Keep justifying shovelling all your data into Google, you’ll show them!
Ah yes, “logical fallacies”, the internet dork’s favorite counter argument.
Google and Apple are both Trillion dollar companies, both are a problem.
Yeah, my bad. I must have replied to the wrong comment there. Your’s was too trite to be worth a reply.