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Is Apple actually pro privacy? Or do they just brand themselves as that, while not really caring much about it?
by Mirioron 7y ago
Is Apple actually pro privacy? Or do they just brand themselves as that, while not really caring much about it?
- untog 7y agoI’ve seen it said before that Apple is pro-privacy because it suits them from a marketing standpoint. They tried being an anti-privacy ad provider with iAds and failed at it, so this pivot helps them. A cynical read on the situation but it’s as valid as any.
- pwinnski 7y agoThe timeline doesn't work for that read. They were pushing their privacy credentials before launching iAds, and iAds failed as many predicted precisely because they wouldn't compromise their privacy stance.
- kitsunesoba 7y agoYep, Apple had trouble selling spots on iAd because the program had only very coarse targeting and shared almost no viewer info with advertisers. Apple wanted iAds to function more like newspaper ads than web ads.
- alwillis 7y agoI believe they care and they know it gives them a competitive advantage. It’s kind of a stretch to suggest they aren’t pro-privacy, given the intentional features they provide: https://www.apple.com/privacy/ https://www.apple.com/privacy/
- realusername 7y agoIn my opinion, they are not so much pro privacy as anti user-rights. You can see that as pro-privacy yes, or you can also see that because they limit what users can do as much as possible. The privacy part just seems a side effect of the anti user-rights policies.