Me? The more private Apple makes my iPhone the happier I will be. Instead of having to opt out I would prefer to opt in; Then I will know no one is pulling sneaky's on me.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/tech/facebook-apple-ios-privacy-rules/index.html
"Facebook (FB) is now waging a public relations effort to attack Apple (AAPL) ahead of new iOS data privacy changes that would make it harder for advertisers to track users, ..."
Against all of it, wish we got stuck in 2005 technology.
that being said, a large % of the economy is driven by targeted ads on facebook and instagram, this would hurt them badly.
I think a distinction needs to be made between "tracking" and personable identifiable information.
In theory I like Apple's stance here, but that company is about as evil and deceptive as any of them, so can they both lose?
They both have serious fundamental problems that are not in the best interests of their customers/users.
Like any political election it's a choice of lesser evils. Facebook makes money selling their user's activity and info. Apple behaves like the mafia extracting a 30% cut of revenue from their App Store for essentially hosting download files and processing payments, normally a 3% margin business. There is more to it than that, of course, but they are both unapologetic about what they do.
I find Facebook very invasive. Haven’t signed back on since I created an account. Yuck! No Twitter or Instagram either.
Quoted from LTG:Thing I didn't like about Apple. I got a free year of Apple TV. Except you need a charge card to sign up for it.
No thanks.
LTG : )
I got that notification on the main....SETTINGS page of my iPhone. Work phone so I can easily decline.
A lot of businesses would probably get more subscriptions if free trials didn't require a credit card. Once they have your CC it's some cluster of "oh you didn't cancel in time" or "we didn't get your cancellation message at all" or "But we thought you wanted a full year". Or something else.
Leo Getz would have a good response for this.
Quoted from LTG:Thing I didn't like about Apple. I got a free year of Apple TV. Except you need a charge card to sign up for it.
You can turn off auto-renewal immediately after activating the trial. There are a couple good shows but I definitely wouldn’t pay for it.
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I also put tape over the camera and microphone on my own laptop but feel free to share your most personal data with my company.
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Z is pure evil, he even looks evil. You know they are gobbling up as much of your information they can get their hands on.
facebook, apple, and google are no one's friends and should all probably be broken up. The antitrust lawsuits are a very welcome contribution coming from the US admins right now.
I trust them as far as I can throw them.
So Apple says "We’ll let users decide if they want their browsing habits tracked across sites and shared with other companies (unrelated to where they were browsing in the first place)"...
and Facebook says "Are you f*$^ing kidding me? This will kill our ad revenue stream because we can't sell users private information anymore unless they agree to it."
Seems pretty obvious to me in this particular battle which one I would be for. Honestly, with the strict data practices that the EU and some other countries have already enacted, I'm surprised this isn't already a government mandated option at this point (though I'm generally against the government stepping in as babysitter for this type of situation).
Quoted from pinsanity:I also put tape over the camera and microphone on my own laptop but feel free to share your most personal data with my company.
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Every time I see that picture it makes me laugh. That billionaire ego manic and people actually believe that is his shitty office with no privacy out in the open. Its probably an interns desk he posed at for the picture.
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