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Re:Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own an... by timmytokyo on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:20PM (#33073115)
Tim Cook was asked about advertising and privacy a couple weeks ago. Here's his answer. Take from it what you will.

"Digital advertising is not a bad thing. We've never said digital advertising is a bad thing. What is not good is vacuuming up people's data when they're not doing so on an informed basis. That's what is bad. And so we try to put the user in the driver seat there to own the data."

https://youtu.be/sdvzYtgmIjs?t=3717

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Re:Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own an... by amelius on Monday October 03, 2022 @06:26PM (#33074540)
Driver seat as in: we'll show you an annoying popup asking for consent every time you are least prepared for it.
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