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Re:Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased by freedomben on Thursday September 21, 2017 @11:39AM (#15304539)
If Apple really wants to do right by users, they need to open source their software.

I don't like any giant company saying, "trust us, our code is completely closed and we put up tons of road blocks for you unless you use it the way we say you should, but we take your privacy seriously. Trust us <EvilSmile />"

As long as Apple is a closed and secretive company, I won't consider them advocates for users.

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Re:Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased by GabeRicard on Thursday September 21, 2017 @12:51PM (#15305300)
If you have that view of Apple and don't trust them, then what would be different if the code was open source? You think they couldn't do a special "evil" build for devices where you can't access the binary and then provide the "non-evil" source for it?
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