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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by danaris on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:17PM (#45672219)
Is there any actual evidence that Apple is collecting this information and either using it for tracking purposes, or selling it to others who do? As opposed to processing it in aggregate to improve their services?

If there is, I'll be the first to say they shouldn't be doing that, and I would definitely prefer them not to be collecting it in the first place, but there are different kinds and purposes of data collection.

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by isodev on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:11PM (#45672979)
I don’t think they’re selling it (at least that) but it’s spotlight and the browser … exactly where one tends to type sensitive things. It’s unsettling to know everything I typed becomes a dataset to circulate all divisions within a big corp for years to come, for data analysis, unit tests and who knows what else.
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