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by gigel82 722 days ago
> When you look at Alphabet or Meta engineering, you see their schemes serve to give them the ad profile data, while making it inaccessible to competitors.

That's exactly what Apple did with their supposed "opt out" work a couple of years back - they take a lot more data than apps on their platform are allowed to.

BTW, they only did that privacy work because they couldn't reach an agreement to get direct cash out of Facebook abusing users on their platform, to spite Meta: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/12/23303095/apple-meta-faceb...