• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    13 hours ago

    “Wants to”. They are just testing the waters for a response.

    I’ve been telling people for years that Apple is just better at marketing. They sell this image of better security and everything, but they are just big tech with a bigger smile and make up than the others.

    You trust Apple? You fell for the lies.

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    15 hours ago

    This just pushes me closer to Motorola and GrapheneOS when it launches in a year or so.

    Fuck Apple and seriously fuck Google.

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    19 hours ago

    Simplest way to delete their userbase. They’re the last big Tech company that still has a semblance of respect for user privacy, if any.

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        Semblance. Are you saying that there are literally no privacy features? Privacy is a sliding scale, don’t gatekeep some certain level of privacy as “legitimate” and call everything else below that line fake, that’s disingenuous.

        Compared to Google, Microsoft, etc, they are more respecting of privacy than other big tech companies.

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          Yes because they’re sooooo transparent about how they handle you data. And they’ve NEVER lied before riiiiight?

          It’s not that they’re fake for not being private enough, they’re fake because of their long history of dishonesty and deceptive marketing. Or would you like to ask them what “current competing hardware” means on their next press release chart?

          Apple was a cult of personality run by a snake oil salesman until jobs died. Now it’s a shell of that, run by a board of investors. Why do people on communities like this, an ostensibly ant-capitalist community, still feel the need to defend them? It’s always so weird to me.

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 hours ago

      apple users will eat it up because “whoa look the ai is so much better now that it knows everything about me 😮😮😮”

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      19 hours ago

      They know people lack better alternatives, since all the other tech companies are doing the same.

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    Opt in. Nothing new. E: you can also opt in to share intimate health data with medical researchers. You can opt in to share analytical debugging info. It should come as no surprise that models trained on actual anonymized user data are more functional. Pretending that this is yet another insidious anti-privacy opt-out mechanic (as this article does) is disingenuous (because there is no “backflip”) and preys on privacy fear for clicks and subscriptions (see paywall). Privacy researchers should not see these grifter websites as allies. Anyone who knows better and amplifies them anyway is a “free thinker” who has no right to call themselves a privacy enthusiast.

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        5 hours ago

        Free thinker

        Doesn’t care at all about the truth, only casting reality to fit his pre-existing worldview

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          5 hours ago

          I’d only have to explain how that opt in is predatory, to be understood, to an apple apologist like you

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            I’d only have to explain how that opt in is predatory, to be understood, to an apple apologist like you

            Did you mean to compliment Apple apologists and me or did you mean something else?