Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor...
by GoofballJones on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:18AM
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Maybe read, think, and then don't reply to my remarks. While Apple can serve ads to you, it's what they do with that data that matters. No matter what we do, if we want to have any presence online, meta-data is going to be collected. But that doesn't mean we should just throw up our hands and go "welp, everyone is doing it, so what does it matter". It matters. While I don't trust anything totally, at this point in time, in 2023, I would trust Apple more than Google or Facebook in how it handles that meta-data. They aren't in the business of selling it.
That could change at the drop of a hat and a change in their TOS though, so it's best to be ever vigilant.
From "just get an android" in response to someone complaining about having to pay $100/yr to publish a FOSS app on the App Store to "I take it you don't use apple products" or "That's all going to the government! I ain't gonna use that!" when someone only mentioned not setting up Touch ID or Face ID.
Maybe read, think, and then don't reply with snark.
While I do agree with this change, this restriction also clearly serves to further entrench Apple to be the gatekeeper over users. They can fingerprint you, they can serve ads to you, but oh anyone else no no no, that's evil and against your privacy™