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Its clear Apple take privacy seriously, you only have to look at for example iOS privacy settings, all centralised in one place and granular. Meanwhile, if the

Its clear Apple take privacy seriously, you only have to look at for example iOS privacy settings, all centralised in one place and granular. Meanwhile, if they could, Facebook would embed a chip in you to collect every piece of biometric data about you, as well as recording and videoing the environment around you 24x7x365. Google, well, we all know, Google will do whatever it takes to enable them to sell more ads on their platform. Nobody who takes their privacy seriously should have a Google account. Apple's competitors have set the bar in the gutter, frankly.

DannyBee 4y ago
It's clear they want you to think they take privacy seriously. They have also made plenty of steps in the past few years towards the opposite. Given they are pushing very hard now on expanding their ad network, we'll see how it plays out. But overall it seems like complete folly to believe any company really cares. Some may have good leaders who care deeply at a point in time (and I suspect Tim Cook really does), but that will certainly come and go, and you don't want this kind of thing to be dependent on who is in the driver's seat at a given point in time.
- tigroferoce 4y ago
  The company cares for the profit. In some way it's not Google's fault, but it's our fault, because we allowed the concept of a free internet to even exist. Free as in no money, of course. What I see is that free as in no money sells well, while free as in freedom is not that interesting. We have what we deserve and what we have worked really hard to obtain. And this is sad. One might argue that the users were "tricked" into believing that an ads-based system could be not evil, and that now that technology has become a key part of society it should be regulated (like driving, for instance, is). But then, again, we choose our regulators, and we have the regulators we deserve, so ...

DannyBee 4y ago

It's clear they want you to think they take privacy seriously. They have also made plenty of steps in the past few years towards the opposite. Given they are pushing very hard now on expanding their ad network, we'll see how it plays out. But overall it seems like complete folly to believe any company really cares. Some may have good leaders who care deeply at a point in time (and I suspect Tim Cook really does), but that will certainly come and go, and you don't want this kind of thing to be dependent on who is in the driver's seat at a given point in time.

tigroferoce 4y ago
The company cares for the profit. In some way it's not Google's fault, but it's our fault, because we allowed the concept of a free internet to even exist. Free as in no money, of course. What I see is that free as in no money sells well, while free as in freedom is not that interesting. We have what we deserve and what we have worked really hard to obtain. And this is sad. One might argue that the users were "tricked" into believing that an ads-based system could be not evil, and that now that technology has become a key part of society it should be regulated (like driving, for instance, is). But then, again, we choose our regulators, and we have the regulators we deserve, so ...