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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by t0mas88 on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:18AM (#23868738)
That's not a reason to pay more for an iPhone. Android allows you to install any browser you want (as opposed to Apple still not allowing real third party browsers), including Firefox with uBlock, which is much much better at privacy than Safari on Apple and as a bonus makes the internet 3x faster by blocking ads.
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by RKearney on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:26AM (#23870777)
Yes, we should all flock to an operating system developed by an advertising company in an effort to escape advertisements.
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by Spivak on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:03AM (#23871274)
I mean you 1000% shouldn't go to any store, buy an Android phone and just use it if you want to avoid Google. But Android in isolation is fine as long as you consider it a hobbyist smartphone platform.
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by lern_too_spel on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:41PM (#23876169)
If that operating system does a better job of escaping ads, why not?
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by jeffhuys on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:18AM (#23871450)
Eh, I use Wipr. Exact same thing. PiHole if you want system-wide.
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by scarface74 on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:51PM (#23875390)
An ad blocker that intercepts all of your traffic is better for privacy than one that doesn’t?
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by t0mas88 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:48PM (#23883763)
If it's open source and people can check that it doesn't anything hidden, yes
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by scarface74 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:34PM (#23884619)
Are you compiling it and putting it on your phone yourself or are you trusting that the same version that they posted on GitHub is the same version on Google Play.
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