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0 pointszepto5y ago0 comments

“But Apple is hiding their own tracking under default opt-in switches and using double standards as well.”

This is, as far as I can tell, completely false.

Apple has been asking for explicit opt-ins for years, and is only now requiring apps to follow suit.

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izacus5y ago· 2 in thread

That's not the case on my macOS MacBook or my iPad.

zeptoOP5y ago

If you do a clean install, you’ll find that you are asked to opt-in to all the services that collect personal data.

You may not remember it, and I think that some of the opt-ins persist across device restores, but all the data collection is through explicit opt-ins.

threeseed5y ago

You were asked on every single OS update whether or not you wanted to share usage and crash data with Apple and third party developers.

And it is opt-in.

bilbo0s5y ago

This is the difference. Apple is explicitly opt-in. (In fact, a very large number of people opt-out of Apple's as soon as they get the prompt.) The non-Apple ones are completely opaque to the user.

They should all be opt-in.

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