Apple still links services like device bricking to the Find My network. If your iphone is stolen, and you don’t want someone to reset it to use or sell, you HAVE to submit your location data to be a part of the tracker network. Disabling that, Apple sends users a scary nag email that their device is no longer protected.
100%. Most business is just advanced sophistry at this point. Marketing and advertising serves a useful purpose for new products, when the market isn’t aware that it exists.
But by quantity and cost, most advertising is just social manipulation and is effectively an extra drain on the economy.
2021 - Apple collects more types of data than Google https://www.tomsguide.com/news/android-ios-data-collection
2021 - Apple Do Not Track basically a placebo button https://www.techdirt.com/2021/12/10/apples-do-not-track-button-is-privacy-theater/
2022 - Apple tracking you despite your privacy settings https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558
2023 - All the Data Apple Tracks on You (Privacy guides amount to roughly 70,000 words of legalese) https://www.wired.com/story/apple-privacy-data-collection/
2023 - MAC address “filtering” has basically been broken since launch https://www.zdnet.com/article/iphone-users-who-dont-want-to-be-tracked-need-apples-ios-17-1-privacy-patch/
Apple still links services like device bricking to the Find My network. If your iphone is stolen, and you don’t want someone to reset it to use or sell, you HAVE to submit your location data to be a part of the tracker network. Disabling that, Apple sends users a scary nag email that their device is no longer protected.
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100%. Most business is just advanced sophistry at this point. Marketing and advertising serves a useful purpose for new products, when the market isn’t aware that it exists.
But by quantity and cost, most advertising is just social manipulation and is effectively an extra drain on the economy.
And that’s just the last three years!
Juan, YOU are the man! 💪
Plus people forget that if they use iCloud Apple can also see all your data in the same way Google can if you use a Google account