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And Apple, the upstart ("stealth mode") ad company.

by gigel82 2y ago

BenFranklin100 2y ago
The upstart ad company that spent years and tens of billions of dollars to develop a privacy focused AI in the cloud platform? The same upstart that offers encrypted cloud storage that even it can’t decrypt? Congrats on the false equivalency argument. Guys like you do yourself a disservice. No one takes your hyperbolic statements seriously. Keep posting this nonsense if it makes you feel better.
- gigel82 2y ago
  It's not hyperbolic, I genuinely believe (and there is plenty of evidence suggesting it as well) that Apple is building a massive ad empire. BTW, related to all their "encrypted" cloud, if the CCP having the decryption key is not enough to convince you of the BS, they also clearly showed their hand a couple years back when they wanted to introduce local on-device scanning of customers' pictures and comparing against an opaque database of hashes produced by nameless government-connected entities, including uploading the unencrypted pictures for review by humans who'd later send them to authorities. It took massive uproar to change that direction (but not before the same Craig guy who's now talking about the "private cloud" took his time to educate us "screeching minority" about how we misunderstood the thing - e.g. "you're holding it wrong"). So yes, they have amazing PR, but they're just as bad (if not worse) than the likes of Microsoft and Google.
- fsflover 2y ago
  1. https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/10/apple-makes-it-really-hard-for-users-to-completely-stop-it-from-collecting-data https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/10/apple-makes-it-re... 2. https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveillance/ https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveil... 3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433

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And Apple, the upstart ("stealth mode") ad company.

by gigel82 2y ago

And Apple, the upstart ("stealth mode") ad company.

BenFranklin100 2y ago
The upstart ad company that spent years and tens of billions of dollars to develop a privacy focused AI in the cloud platform? The same upstart that offers encrypted cloud storage that even it can’t decrypt? Congrats on the false equivalency argument. Guys like you do yourself a disservice. No one takes your hyperbolic statements seriously. Keep posting this nonsense if it makes you feel better.
- gigel82 2y ago
  It's not hyperbolic, I genuinely believe (and there is plenty of evidence suggesting it as well) that Apple is building a massive ad empire. BTW, related to all their "encrypted" cloud, if the CCP having the decryption key is not enough to convince you of the BS, they also clearly showed their hand a couple years back when they wanted to introduce local on-device scanning of customers' pictures and comparing against an opaque database of hashes produced by nameless government-connected entities, including uploading the unencrypted pictures for review by humans who'd later send them to authorities. It took massive uproar to change that direction (but not before the same Craig guy who's now talking about the "private cloud" took his time to educate us "screeching minority" about how we misunderstood the thing - e.g. "you're holding it wrong"). So yes, they have amazing PR, but they're just as bad (if not worse) than the likes of Microsoft and Google.
- fsflover 2y ago
  1. https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/10/apple-makes-it-really-hard-for-users-to-completely-stop-it-from-collecting-data https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/10/apple-makes-it-re... 2. https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveillance/ https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveil... 3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433