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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by hueving on Thursday December 29, 2016 @09:04PM (#13281977)
They don't offer any services that would benefit from it.
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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by esert on Thursday December 29, 2016 @10:00PM (#13282189)
They have ads: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/search-ads/
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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by username223 on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:17AM (#13284446)
Search advertising doesn't require massive data collection, just bidding on search terms. Anyways, I bet anything Apple makes on app store ads is a rounding error compared to their hardware business. They probably don't care that much, and certainly have no need to go into the surveillance business.
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Re:Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows Ab... by esert on Friday December 30, 2016 @10:55AM (#13284930)
They have audience options for ads (like age/gender/location, see http://searchads.apple.com/how-it-works/#features), meaning they collect data about their users as well.

Also, they colluded with other companies to, effectively, keep employees' wages down. Amount of money they saved was probably a rounding error for them in this case too.

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