Apple is becoming an ad company despite privacy claims

Apple's "privacy" is really just data protection from other competing companies. It was just another marketing campaign to maintain their positive image.

Please no. There is no refuge from the ads. Not for all the money in the world, apparently. This is the worst timeline.<p>Can I pay 2x to get an ad-free iPhone? 3x? Surely there is some point where it makes sense to sell an ad free phone for those who _need_ to not see ads. They won&#x27;t even take my money ;_;

Funny, if you make it to the end of the article the entire thing is an ad for Proton.

Is there any actual substance to these posts, or is this just the usual scare tactics? Because something similar is posted almost daily.<p>Besides perhaps an Apple Music “ad”, I haven’t seen anything factual.

A somewhat careless, reactionary blog post.<p>&quot;… On Nov. 20, a pair of iOS developers known as Mysk discovered that Apple has a specific identifier (a “directory services identifier” or DSID) for every Apple iCloud account. …&quot;<p>– as if Mysk discovered this. Not so.<p>DSID-related analysis was performed more than seven months earlier – by a group of five researchers, including four at the University of Oxford.<p>Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Max Van Kleek, Reuben Binns, and Nigel Shadbolt. 2022. Goodbye Tracking? Impact of iOS App Tracking Transparency and Privacy Labels. In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT &#x27;22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 508–520. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;3531146.3533116" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;3531146.3533116</a><p>(Version 1 was submitted on 7th April 2022.)

NextDNS has a &quot;Native tracking protection&quot; blocklist for Apple. Looking at my logs, it has blocked iadsdk.apple.com and many subdomains, and supportmetrics, securemetrics, books-analytics-events, weather-analytics-events (all under apple.com).

You know Apple&#x27;s mantra: &quot;Don&#x27;t leave money on the table.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m totally not surprised about this, although it will hurt their privacy USP (unique selling point).

I wish they would spin off their hardware business. Or at least their Mac business.

Proton mail doing a little advertising of their own through a blog post. lol

This is sadly the beginning of the end of Apple.

You can be an ad company and respect your users privacy. They’re not mutually exclusive as the headline seems to suggest.

With an accountant at the head of the company, what would you expect?<p>They also have too much power, too much money, not enough competition and a deteriorating company culture.<p>But aside from their dominance, they also have a few gems, their bet on ARM is paying off big time.

It&#x27;s the carcinisation of the modern corporation.

Who is clicking on these ads? Or do companies pay for the ad to just show up? I have never in my life intentionally clicked on an ad.

Ads are taking over the world because they&#x27;re actually just a propaganda vehicle and control is the only thing worth money<p>Regulation is too toothless to do anything about it so I think we&#x27;ll naturally see all corporations evolve this way

Lovely free advertising for Proton. Very smart blog post, since numerous employees and fans of Apple competitors, as well as anyone who dislikes Apple for whatever reason, has plenty motivation to upvote this post.<p>Also: Calling someone an ad company when approximately 1% of revenue seems to be generated by ads would seem quite a stretch.<p>Also: Being tracked while on someone’s property isn’t exactly the same as tracking someone across unrelated properties.<p>Also: Every company with a decent CRM system and culture has been tracking all kinds of (often personal) details about their (potential) customers gathered from their interactions and whatever sources they could get their hands on. This has been going on since before the Internet was widely used.<p>But while this blog post (attack ad?) doesn’t seem to have that much meaningful substance, it’s also kind of just doing the same to Apple as Apple often does to others.