Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off.

slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If they cared less you wouldn’t even get the option

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Google and Facebook do the same thing, doesn’t make them any more privacy friendly.

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    • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Google and Facebook don’t enforce these kinds of setting onto their internal apps

      When you tell iOS to not share info with applications it actually doesn’t share that info with applications. Facebook sued Apple over this.

      Look, I don’t worship Apple but it’s just wrong to say they aren’t wayyy more protective of privacy than almost everyone else

      …harvard.edu/…/apples-new-privacy-features-subjec…

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Apple may block third party from accessing your info, but they won’t block themselves from doing the exact same thing Google does.

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  • piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not true. They’re required by law.

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    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Incorrect

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      • piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        GDPR Article 7:

        Art. 7(3): Users must be able to withdraw consent at any time, and it must be as easy to withdraw as to give → This is why an opt-out must exist.

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• melfie@lemy.lol ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are 2 reasons a big corporation will ever do anything:

  1. Make number go up

  2. Avoid number going down due to bad PR, government fines, etc.

  This probably falls under #2.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Apple does sell privacy in ads.

    And their hardware sales margins are hilarious.

    So in this case they do have some incentive for privacy/security.

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They do even better - they sell the idea of privacy. Then they’re free to double dip.

      Or triple dip if selling in a place like China.

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