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> Google's main business is surveillance advertising, and they pay Apple for the privilege of surveilling their users and returning them advertising. Not true.
by zepto 5y ago
> Google's main business is surveillance advertising, and they pay Apple for the privilege of surveilling their users and returning them advertising.
Not true. Google is accessed via a web browser or via their own app. Google doesn’t have to pay to access Apple’s users. They pay for Apple to make them the default search engine in Safari. In this way, Google is paying apple to advertise their service, but Apple isn’t doing any surveillance.
> I am sorry but I do not know what else to call it other than surveillance advertising.
Yes, Google’s business is surveillance advertising. To claim that Apple has a surveillance advertising business because they receive payments from Google, is no different from claiming that the company that supplies toilet paper to the Googleplex ‘has a surveillance advertising business.’
> I have plenty of other resources of information about this
If you had a resource that shows that Apple was doing surveillance advertising, you would have presented it by now. You obviously don’t.
- kornhole 5y agoThe analogy that someone who supplies toilet paper is guilty for what their customer does is not fitting here. Let's say I am paid and entrusted to watch and protect a herd of sheep. A guy pays me $150 each time to come over and have some pleasure with those sheep many many times. I did not do the thing myself, but I certainly know what is going on and profit from it. I am not a good person, and you should not entrust me with your sheep.
- zepto 5y agoExcept that Apple doesn’t in fact do surveillance advertising itself, so that analogy is complete bullshit.