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by ddxv 907 days ago
Apple's mobile "privacy" features are about monopolizing advertising on their mobile products so that Apple is now the number one iOS advertising company.
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Id go the whole way and say that their entire walled garden ecosystem is designed to do this as well. Most Apple device users that I have spoken to have absolutely no idea how much it makes from advertising inside its own services.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-is-an-ad-company-now

That’s isolated to the App Store and News app, exactly where you would expect it.