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by bryanrasmussen 924 days ago
it's almost like google has a business model where its users are the product it sells to customers and Apple doesn't
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So Apple fooled you.

Apple also happens to sell hardware and software alongside its users.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330127/apple-ad-revenue...

The trick with Apple's advertising is that it's kinda opt in. If you don't want to deal with apple's advertising, don't buy an apple product.

If you don't want to deal with Google's advertising, good luck

Apple doesn't sell me 5 consecutive ads in a row on YouTube.
They still sell you.

Just wait and it gets more.

Google didn't have ads in the beginning.

Until Apple starts messing up Safari to increase that part of their business, I'll keep using it. Chrome was perfect before and didn't need more changes outside of security updates. It was "enshitified" after Google had all the market share and users locked-in. There is no incentive for Chrome to get better since their is no realistic competition. Chromium may get better since Brave and other browsers use it under the hood.
Meh, Safari and Brave are crap compared to Chrome(ium).
Brave is chromium. And how is chrome better (or worse) than safari? They both just work, and safari is even better for laptops in terms of battery life in my experience.
Brave is slower than chromium from my experience, had issues related to bookmarks when I last tried it, and it doesn't do stuff it claims to - such as privacy, ad blocking, etc.

Safari has weird Apple-isms like nonstandard shortcuts, weird UI, and the dev tools are just kinda shit overall.

Apple absolutely has that same business model (though it's not the only one for both companies).
Google has the business model that if it goes away they're screwed, Apple has the business model that oh well since everyone else is doing it we might as well get a few extra bucks as well, cause we like money, but make sure it doesn't mess with our real business.

their models are not the same.

They both have many different businesses under the hood, and they both heavily rely on advertising.

Both collect, sell, and use their users' data.

They even have special deals where Apple sells it's users to Google.

Not sure what point you're trying to make.