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by amelius 1357 days ago
> Apple seems to prioritize privacy more than the competition, while for Google collecting, and combing through to monetize, your personal data is a big part of their business model.

My TV also doesn't have data as its main business model, however ... it still collects data on me.
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olivierestsage 1357 days ago
The cost of TVs is now heavily subsidized by the data-mining, though, whereas I don't see much evidence that's the case for Apple products, whatever their other problems (if such evidence does exist, I'd be interested to see it).
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fsflover 1357 days ago
> whereas I don't see much evidence that's the case for Apple products

https://www.barrons.com/articles/apples-advertising-business...

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spideymans 1357 days ago
I don’t see what the issue is, unless Apple is violating my privacy to serve their ads.

(I’m not a fan of ads, but don’t see how this is necessarily a privacy issue)

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philjohn 1357 days ago
Well there's the disingenuous way in which they present the choice, defaulted to opt in with flowery language, versus the popup third party developers have presented to their users.

There's also the "app store health card" which the cynic in me would say is designed to scare people away from "competing" apps, because none of the Apple equivalents have a health card. Additionally there's no nuance - both iMessage and Twitter ask for location data - but only if you want to share your location. End result? People looking at Twitter in the App Store surmise "well, they must be tracking my location at all times!".

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danaris 1357 days ago
> none of the Apple equivalents have a health card.

Apple's apps on the App Store most certainly do have health cards. Not sure what you've been looking at...?

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philjohn 1357 days ago
Built in apps - iMessage. And yes, that does seem to be in the app store now, however, there's a lot there that seems to be missing - access to photos for example isn't listed in the health card, neither is microphone access - both of which are core features of the app.
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amelius 1357 days ago
> I don’t see what the issue is, unless Apple is violating my privacy to serve their ads.

Google also claims they don't violate our privacy by hiding our data from third party advertisers. They still collect massive amounts of data ...

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fsflover 1357 days ago
Ads that rely on tracking is a problem for privacy, not all ads.
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