| Meanwhile Apple is tracking users 24/7. There is no option to turn off phoning home to Apple in Apple's pre-installed operating systems. Every user of iOS is constantly pinging Apple servers all day every day. Connect an iOS device to the internet and watch the network. The user is given no control over this. All users are assumed to need Apple's help setting the system time. The networking functionality of NeXT/Apple's operating systems is based on open source BSD operating system code. But BSD does not phone home to some organization when you install it. Why not? Surely Apple's approach is the best one for all users, right? It is amusing to watch these companies proclaim they will block others from tracking and serving ads while continuing to siphon user data themselves, often in ways that are all but transparent to users. Apple can block everyone else, then I can block Apple. OK by me. Someone in this thread made some comment about Microsoft Edge not tracking users. Do people seriously believe nonsense like that? MS was dumping debug output via DrWatson to the network long before collecting user data for profit was even a strategy. Connect a Windows computer to the internet and watch the network. All on by default. Unlike Apple, they have no prepared explanation/justification why they need to do this. And even if they did, who cares? Users prefer not to be tracked. Companies are admitting they know this. Users could opt-in to tracking if they believed they were getting some benefit. But that is not how this game works. There is no "opt-in". It is on by default. There was no intention to make tracking a "choice". Probably because companies know what the choice of users would be and it would not be favorable to the company. But that is not something we are allowed to discuss. |
I suspect you'd have fewer down votes (and thus perhaps some discussion) without this. Congratulations on the self-fulfilling prophecy.