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> you can say that Apple, right now, is in the proper state to do that

I wonder why you say that. Is it because apple has been pushing the "privacy is a right" dialog and that somehow makes apple more trustworthy, right now?

Because I think apple is, right now, playing both sides of the privacy game.

for instance, all the blockers they allow are opt-out rather than opt-in.

Actually all their data choices are opt-out. I think they know statistically that nobody would willingly opt-in, so for business advantage (and fear?) that's what they do.

IHMO any data collected, whether "anonymized" or not, can be used against people and the human race so it should be opt-in. And opt-in should not be cleverly engineered into a faustian bargain.