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I mean, considering all most people use their phones for is a web browser and their collection of social media apps I think the ad coverage on both is pretty da

I mean, considering all most people use their phones for is a web browser and their collection of social media apps I think the ad coverage on both is pretty darn similar. I switched from an iPhone to Android because I won't carry a phone I can't deploy my own software to, and I stopped buying Macs, so I can't build for iOS anymore now that the last one died. I don't really see any more or less ads because they're served through whatever app or website you're using.

rodgerd 5y ago
Interesting. One of the two triggers to investigate iOS in my household (the other was deprecating Hangouts) was noticing that pihole was showing about a third of the DNS requests were blocked, and those were overwhelmingly from mobile devices. Moving to iOS dropped that to 3%. This is a few years ago, so I'm sure that the adware companies have got harder-to-block mechanisms for their surveillance capitalism. But certainly at that point, it was a very significant difference. Apple's requirement to be clear about how customer data is being used by third parties has only reinforced the value of that change for me.