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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by piva00 on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:21AM (#25466027)
I've saved a comment I read on reddit that perfectly captures my point of view on this, I want to share because this way of thinking in either-or is what I believe is wrong when playing the card of "but Apple is not altruistic as well" as I'm very aware of that and think many others are:

> Both Apple and Facebook are evil corporations that only care about profits, but Apple’s priorities benefit me and my desire for privacy while Facebook’s absolutely do not. I hope Apple’s new privacy controls are so effective that they put Facebook out of business. Fuck Facebook.

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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by wizzwizz4 on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:18AM (#25468514)
Source?
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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by ogre_codes on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:52AM (#25468947)
No idea what the source is, but it's exactly my perspective as well. Whether Apple is a "Good" megacorp or not is irrelevant. Their policies and their profit incentives are fairly well aligned with mine. Not always, they also do lots of shit which frustrates the hell out of me too. But more often than their competitors. That is about the best you can hope for.
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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by wizzwizz4 on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:31PM (#25470260)
Like most phone manufacturers, they're incentivised to exploit the people manufacturing phones. I'd pay money for iCloud, but never for their hardware (until they clean up their act, anyway).
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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by r00fus on Friday December 18, 2020 @08:23PM (#25474110)
Honestly gotta ask why you use iCloud if you have no Apple devices...?
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