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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by sgammon on Sunday December 29, 2024 @10:09PM (#42546059)
> Not impressed.

So Apple kneecaps Meta's cross-app advertising, something that literally makes them no direct revenue to implement, and protects users (it famously reduced Facebook cross-app analytics traffic to a significant degree), and you think this is business as usual?

Then you should reconsider my comment at the top of this thread, because it is 100% speaking to this exact phenomenon.

Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by jchw on Sunday December 29, 2024 @10:26PM (#42546152)
I mean I'm unimpressed as far as user agency goes, not as far as privacy goes.
Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by sgammon on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @01:58PM (#42560916)
Ask App Not To Track was literally just the ability for the user to choose for themselves whether tracking is allowed. That’s a user agency improvement.