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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by jwr on Friday December 18, 2020 @05:18AM (#25465687)
That's great! That is exactly what I would like to see happen. Software comes at a cost, and nobody should expect to get software "for free", where "free" is actually a lie, because you pay by giving up your privacy.
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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by duckfang on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:57AM (#25467668)
Unfortunately, that comment precludes the Free Software and the Open Source software side of things. In those cases, it is free code under a usually strong license of permissions.

And tracking for the most part, has been a manner of "Do you want to allow tracking? Default:OFF" (thinking of Debian Popcorn)

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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by ogre_codes on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:47AM (#25468894)
> Unfortunately, that comment precludes the Free Software and the Open Source software side of things.

I don't think this precludes free software at all.

Free software has always co-existed with paid commercial software. I suspect it always will. There are always going to be corners of the software market OSS developer aren't interested in pursuing. I doubt there are a lot of developers interested in building garbage collection routing software in their spare time. There are however plenty of developers who want to pay their rent who will.

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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by encom on Friday December 18, 2020 @05:25AM (#25465732)
"Free" is also not nickel-and-diming or bait-and-switching people with in app purchases. I'm not saying data mining my PI for profit is better, but the app store as a market place is an extremely toxic place.
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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by andybak on Friday December 18, 2020 @05:36AM (#25465798)
And I would like the choice of ad supported apps (albeit with better transparency around data collection)
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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by ogre_codes on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:39AM (#25468776)
> And I would like the choice of ad supported apps (albeit with better transparency around data collection)

This is in a nutshell exactly what Apple's changes do. They preserve ad supported options and increase transparency.

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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by madeofpalk on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:58AM (#25466255)
Glad to see they still exist!
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