A typical HN reply will try to blame the user or regulators seeking to protect privacy and minimise damage from data breaches. It will ignore that the company

A typical HN reply will try to blame the user or regulators seeking to protect privacy and minimise damage from data breaches. It will ignore that the company collecting data from and about users for profit is the root cause of the problem. The company refuses to stop coillecting data. HN replies will often allege Apple does not care about collecting data because it is not in the online ad services business. If that was true, then there would be no harm in stopping the data collection. A read through Apple's latest 10K will suggest Apple is in fact in the online ads business and it is growing. The data collection will continue. "Services net sales increased during 2024 compared to 2023 due primarily to higher net sales from advertising, the App Store and cloud services." https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/c87043b9-5d89-4717-9f49-c4f9663d0061.pdf https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/c87043b...