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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.
I don’t know if the format really applies. Complaining about one corporation stealing your data while using another’s product that does the same seems a bit pointless, especially when there are cheaper, better alternatives. The putting a stick through your own bike tire format seems more appropriate.
What are the cheaper better alternatives? I would really love to have a phone that works with most modern things, is private and not by a big corpo, but as far I can tell, it doesn’t exist.
Anyone that claims Apple is stealing their data is drastically misinformed to the point where it feels like a rationalization.
Google does it, Facebook does it, Apple does not. Ask any engineer who works at these companies and they can confirm it.
It is frustrating to Apple engineers with how heavily restricted user data is. There are literally committees at Apple who default to No for any request. They do not profit off your data, they profit off the mark up on hardware and services.
Thinking it’s a both/all sides thing is how much be enabled bad actors. The GOP is an example and anyone who falls for the corporate version is no smarter than anyone who falls for the political version. Luckily, it’s not a lonely place to be.
Common sense is no longer common. Feelings have trumped all logic on the majority of Americans as well as the world population at large.
Won’t someone think of the trillion dollar corporation?
These are the logical fallacies I love to see. Keep justifying shovelling all your data into Google, you’ll show them!
Yeah ask the engineers who work for a company who’s whole schtick is to pretend to be privacy friendly that it does not steal user data. They’ll definitely tell us.
Yeah well, Facebook had an ethics committee too, so they’ve always been ethical then huh?
But but but Apple is different…
Anyone who claims these companies have users best interest at heart are gullible people at best or a cult.
you need more of that “common sense” than using your feelings to dictate what multi billion companies are doing with your data.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/
That is absolute bullshit. I worked for Apple, training Siri. Through false positive we heard unsuspecting people having sex and dealing drugs while their real names and addresses were on the screen.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-agrees-to-95-million-settlement-in-siri-eavesdropping-lawsuit-2000544806
You’re wrong about that, you’re wrong about politics, and you made voting for a genocider your entire personnality. It’s pretty sad really
Siri has always been a mess. That’s not the data this thread is about.
Photos, got any anecdotal bullshit on that?
You’re an apple idiot aren’t you? Look it’s ok to admit you’ve been dumb as fuck overpaying all these years. We all make mistakes. Think about how scientologists feels.
Lmao I’ve witnessed literal sex cults that were less cultish than an apple campus.
Insulting the person in a internet discussion is an immediate loss.
Keep those emotions in check, it makes you look a fool.
What kind of moving goalpost is this? “Apple does not harvest your data”. “Uh they absolutely do, they literally (used correctly this time) got caught listening to people” “Nu-uh only pictures”.
Apple absolutely does collect personal data from its users and uses that data to target advertising. They openly disclose this in their policy statements.
Stating that
is unjustifiable when Apple makes BILLIONS from advertising.
They also have been fined by European regulators when their practices ran afoul of privacy law.
Just because they’re not as bad as Google (quite a low bar) it doesn’t mean they’re as good as they try to sell you on.
Lesser evil is still lesser evil.
It’s hilarious how the people who choose more evil have such hatred of the lesser evils, it’s like the evil has invaded their monds.
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
Become a security research and they will