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kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m sure they’ll get to it. Trouble is there’s so many bullshit moves that companies engage in and it takes time to ban all of them.

  I think the EU should ban apple devices. They claim to be pro privacy but what they really are is pro not giving everyone else your data but keeping it themselves, that’s not privacy, that’s false advertising.

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  • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That bothers me less though.

    Apple “Ok yeah we’re gonna keep your data and mine it. But just us” is a whole lot better than “Lol, your shits for sale” which is Google.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How is it better there’s still data mining it.

      People love to love apple but they’re just a company they don’t care about you.

      I don’t understand why they get special privileges, I don’t understand why people in their favor of them when they’re clearly just as bad as Google. They’re just better at making you think otherwise.

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      • nikt@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because Apple’s core business is selling stuff to you. Google’s core business is selling you to other companies.

        Google’s consumer software and products literally serve no other business purpose than surveillance to figure out how to turn you into a more lucrative advertising target.

        Apple has realized they can capitalize on this by making privacy a core selling feature for their stuff — one that Google cannot challenge them on as privacy is directly at odds with the core premise of their entire business.

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      • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I use a Samsung because I dont give a fuck about my data personally. Its better because I expect companies that have me as a paying customer to use my data internally, its the onselling to literally anyone with enough money that bothers me.

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