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Thank You, Apple for Standing Strong for Privacy
- gggtt 6y agoIt's like someone beating you with a stick, and then they stop and you're like "Thank you for stopping beating me". It is crazy that a company that brags about privacy had a cross-app tracking system to start with
- Daniel_sk 6y agoWell, Android has the same thing, except you can't even turn it off in Settings! (you can on regenerate the ID). On iOS you could always just disable it.
- gggtt 6y agoYes that's totally true. But first Google doesn't really portray themselves as a "Privacy respecting" alternative. And second, it's not because other companies are doing similar abusive things that we should praise and thanks Apple. The title should be more like "At last, after years of using it, Apple finally remove the abusive cross-app tracking that other companies still use", but not "Thank you Apple".
- ndiscussion 6y agoIf Mozilla cares so much about privacy, why don't they enable an ad blocker by default? Why don't they get rid of Pocket? Why don't they remove tracking from their own new tab page? Mozilla is dead to me from a privacy perspective, and they've also made their product inferior.
- dang 6y agoIs this new information? If so, we should have an article about it that's more informative than a press release. Edit: Looks like there are two others. Which is better, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941200 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940916?
- unstatusthequo 6y agoUnless it’s iCloud E2E, in the high they cave to law enforcement. Standing for privacy there?
- sylvainr65 6y agoMozilla tries to find a niche to survive. But I really think that personalized adverts are a better thing that random adverts.