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Apple's position on privacy also led me to switch to iCloud recently. I migrated my mail and drive to iCloud (from GMail, Google Drive) for this very reason and
by jclay 9y ago
Apple's position on privacy also led me to switch to iCloud recently. I migrated my mail and drive to iCloud (from GMail, Google Drive) for this very reason and while there isn't always a 1-1 feature parity, I prefer to know that my data won't be used to analyze and categorize me for the purpose of advertising.
- kobeya 9y agoHow did you do this without changing your email address?
- jclay 9y agoThere's not a great way unfortunately. I just switched all of my accounts that send transactional emails (Amazon receipts, Uber, etc) over to iCloud and then forwarded my old Gmail. There's no turn-key method I'm aware of, but It was important to me that I could have my purchase and trip logs stored somewhere that respects my privacy.
- ProAm 9y agoiCloud isnt safe though [1] [1] https://www.popsci.com/apple-cares-about-your-privacy-unless-you-use-icloud https://www.popsci.com/apple-cares-about-your-privacy-unless...
- duality 9y agoWhat makes you claim (implicitly) that Google, Dropbox, etc. are selling data from your email or storage accounts?
- jclay 9y agoI suppose I should clarify that I'm referring to the data being used to classify me into various (increasingly specific) categories and that resulting output being sold to the highest bidder in the form of a targeted advertisement. Dropbox I'm less familiar with, so I can't speak to their model.