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> There is a great deal of magical thinking surrounding the idea that if you pay companies they wont exploit your data and sell you to advertisers. AKA, the Ap
by liftbigweights 8y ago
> There is a great deal of magical thinking surrounding the idea that if you pay companies they wont exploit your data and sell you to advertisers.
AKA, the Apple Myth. Just because you overpay for apple products, people think they are immune from data collection. Apple probably collects more data on a per capita basis than google or facebook.
- mitchty 8y ago> Apple probably collects more data on a per capita basis than google or facebook. Sources? That which is asserted without evidence is also dismissed without evidence. I'm not aware of apple working with credit card companies to track if after an ad was show that someone bought their product. I do know Google has however, and Facebook, well, hard to argue they collect less data than Apple with a straight face. Please provide some substance to this argument if you could.
- eridius 8y agoApple collects less data about you than practically any other company you interact with. They view personal data as a liability, not an asset, and only collect the data necessary to actually provide the revelant service (and they silo it internally so different services within the company don’t share data, and they anonymize it as much as possible, and they apply differential privacy, etc)