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Literal Hostage Situation (feddit.org)
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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.

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[-] Arcka@midwest.social 13 points 3 months ago

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

They do not profit off your data

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.

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