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

• piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not true. They’re required by law.

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Incorrect

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    • piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Apple collects information sure but it’s nowhere near as much as Google does and this is verifiable.

        None of these companies are good but Apple is by far the least bad when it comes to respecting your privacy

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