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They are a privacy focused company that made a small compromise for usability, rather than a giant company that collects massive amounts of data and pays lips s
by colordrops 4y ago
They are a privacy focused company that made a small compromise for usability, rather than a giant company that collects massive amounts of data and pays lips service to privacy. Apple made 10 billion on ads in the last year, meaning that they have extensive chronological profiles on probably everyone. Are you really saying that the use of a phone number for verification is an equivalent privacy violation to building an ad network? Signal collects no identifiable data and associates nothing with your phone number, probable through cryptography using Intel SGX features. It's absurd to compare the two.
Why is everyone so interested in arbitrarily defending Apple here?
- theshrike79 4y agoIt's possible to serve ads without compromising privacy: https://searchads.apple.com/privacy/ https://searchads.apple.com/privacy/ Google is the one that has "extensive chronological profiles on probably everyone". Apple is the only major company that actively tries not to store anything about its customers. Even Apple Maps retrieves the route in multiple anonymised segments, so that Apple can't know where you went. Google on the other hand will actively track where you are and ask you to review places you went to. And will "helpfully" send you an email of all the places you visited.
- colordrops 4y agoOk, so how do you explain Apple's operation in China? If they cared about privacy they wouldn't offer their products in China due to the goverment's requirement that they have a spyware on every phone sold there. Even google refused to operate there under those conditions.