[peeters]

Problem is, today I agree, 10 years ago it would've been a tossup, and 5 years from now, who knows? These "trusted central broker" privacy models are nicer than giving your info to dozens of individual actors (when you trust that central broker more than anyone else), but they also become a single point of attack/failure.

[shuckles]

That change is likely because Google regressed and Apple progressed along this axis. Now project forward.

[lotsofpulp]

You will never be able to know the future, you can only make decisions based on information available now.

[peeters]

My point is some of the information available now is that historically, companies that respect your privacy today might not tomorrow. And might only be respecting your privacy to get a monopoly on your data so they can exploit it later.

[threeseed]

Difference is you can visibly see how Apple makes money.

It's exclusively from premium hardware and services. And not from advertising or monetising your data.

[owenwil]

And you can visibly see that quickly disappearing. How are people not able to see past the now like this?

[fastball]

Heh, "visibly see".