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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by supportlocal4h on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:14AM (#33315213)
My employer standardized to iPhones. Recently I have been getting notifications that my Netflix account has been suspended.

It greatly irritates me that Apple is sharing profile information with Netflix. I have never used Netflix on my iPhone and don't even have the app installed. Worse, no matter how many times I respond to the notification, my account keeps getting suspended. I never had a Netflix problem before the iPhone.

So, giving up and buying an expensive Apple device does not protect you from life.

P.S. Please don't try to educate me on HN to recognize the difference between a system notification and a scam text message.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by donatj on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:22AM (#33315275)
I don’t see any reason to believe the two things are related.

> It greatly irritates me that Apple is sharing profile information with Netflix

That’s not a thing.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by supportlocal4h on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:32AM (#33315365)
No, it is not a thing except in the mind of a confused ill-informed customer. There is only so much Apple or anyone else can do to protect their users. If somebody sends you instructions on how to convert your life savings to Bitcoin and put it in their wallet, owning an Apple device won't protect you.

Advocating that buying expensive Apple products saves you from vampires is also a scam.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by ceejayoz on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:06AM (#33316128)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good

You're slaying a strawman here; no one claimed iPhones stop phishing, or meteors, or any number of other things.

The (correct) claim was that people on Android sometimes get their devices compromised in ways that aren't possible on an iPhone.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by fazfq on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:16AM (#33315227)
What app is sending that notification?
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by supportlocal4h on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:22AM (#33315274)
It's a scam text message. But your grandma can't tell the difference. It just illustrates that Apple is not a silver bullet. In the end, there is no substitute for education.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by saagarjha on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:56AM (#33317518)
Have you considered writing your comments in a way that makes it clear what you actually mean? Because your top level comment, which I take to understand was written from the point of view of this grandma, lacked the context to make this discernible until you had to write this explanation.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by dang on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:19PM (#33318684)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33314868.
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