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> I dont think Apple is all good and Facebook is all bad, but in the aggregate Apple does do more for privacy than Facebook and Facebook does want to know as mu
by ctvo 5y ago
> I dont think Apple is all good and Facebook is all bad, but in the aggregate Apple does do more for privacy than Facebook and Facebook does want to know as much as possible about your life to push that into selling ads.
The article was about how Apple is out maneuvering Facebook. By restricting Facebook's third party access to customer information, Apple reinforces its own advertising position. They recently added another placement to the search page in the AppStore, and will no doubt expand to more areas. Their hiring of a former Facebook ad executive is telling.
It addresses this good guy / bad guy narrative. Apple is better at PR not necessarily better for consumer privacy.
- disgu 5y agoBut not once has the problem been the fact that Facebook serves ads. It's also not a problem when Apple does it and the problem also isn't how much real estate the ads take up on the store or wherever they're shown. The problem has always been how Facebook gathers and uses the data they collect on you to better find out what ads to serve.
- zaphar 5y agoThe article isn't pointing out a problem with serving ads. It's discussing the PR strategies around the tracking that powers ads. Despite the fact that Apple is also tracking the user, it is winning the PR battle.
- shkkmo 5y agoI would disagree, Apple is absolutely better (or rather, less harmful) than Facebook when it comes to user privacy. This absolutely does not mean that Apple is realy a defender of consumer privacy. Apple does not support privacy out of principle but does it for PR and market share. Apple will (and does) happily compromise privacy for their bottom line.