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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by nmfisher on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:48AM (#25465145)
The saving grace is that it's (relatively) easy to avoid Apple's ecosystem if you don't like the way they do business (like me).

Google/Facebook is much more difficult.

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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by ghaff on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:12AM (#25467814)
Facebook seems relatively easy to me as well, although I have few friends/family who are regular Facebook users at this point. Maybe if I had extended family or circle of friends who all used Facebook daily, I'd feel differently.

Google I agree is harder and not using Google (including Android) makes it pretty hard not to use other tech giants like Apple and Microsoft.

You can mostly avoid using one or two of the dominant firms. It's pretty hard to avoid using all of them.

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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by naravara on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:55AM (#25468263)
> Facebook seems relatively easy to me as well, although I have few friends/family who are regular Facebook users at this point. Maybe if I had extended family or circle of friends who all used Facebook daily, I'd feel differently.

Instagram and WhatsApp are how Facebook really gets its hooks in these days. They manage to avoid the stink of their parent company's brand.

That said, Instagram is falling out of favor with the yutes. They're moving into TikTok now, which is just as invasive with the added bonus of Chinese state censorship added on.

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