| The burden of proof would be on you to prove Apple is using third parties to track its users in that case. Without proof it's just a goofy conspiracy theory. My first question would be... why? What's their motivation? Facebook has to track users to make money, it's their entire business model. The same is not true of Apple, who make almost all their profits from hardware sales and are worth over $2 trillion. Going out of their way to get a third party to secretly spy on users on their behalf sounds like far more effort and risk than it's worth to me. It's not like they're desperate for extra cash. And it's not like it'd be impossible to find out if it was indeed the case. iOS gets reverse engineered all the time. I can see all the traffic my iPhone sends through my DNS logs. If this hypothetical third party was embedded in iOS spying on user activity, it'd be spotted quite easily and quickly. So I ask again, why would Apple do that? Aside from being a total PR nightmare it'd be straight up illegal. I trust Apple because I don't see what reason they have to lie when they've built a multi-trillion dollar business without tracking their users already. |