• Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Their service line was growing much faster than hardware, it is a big part of their business. So their business model does depend on data collection.

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      9 hours ago

      You’re talking about services? That’s like Apple Music, TV, iCloud storage, etc. That’s different from Google scanning your emails to extract purchase information from order confirmations, logging all search activity, etc.

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        6 hours ago

        I am just curious, have you ever read Apple’s privacy policy?

        What makes you think they don’t log your searches?

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            2 hours ago

            So have you or have you not read the Apple privacy policy?

            Where did I say Apple has a search engine? I said Apple tracks and logs your searches.

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              1 hour ago

              If you think there is something to cite in the privacy policy, go ahead and cite it. It’s not my job to make your argument for you.

              In reality, I think you’re being deliberately obtuse because you want to defend Google’s business practices for some reason. You’re conflating the way Google collects sensitive user information for the purpose of advertising in every single one of its products, including from non-Google apps and webpages with some technicality around verbiage in a privacy policy, which you have not even cited yourself.

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                1 hour ago

                Google, Apple, Meta it’s all the same to me. I don’t do fandom for oligarch conglomerates. I am not from North America.

                In reality, I think you’re being deliberately obtuse because you want to defend Google’s business practices for some reason. You’re conflating the way Google collects sensitive user information for the purpose of advertising in every single one of its products, including from non-Google apps and webpages with some technicality around verbiage in a privacy policy, which you have not even cited yourself.

                All right, all right! It’s all a big conspiracy to protect Alphabet and discredit poor little Tim Apple.

                You got me partner. It’s all technicality in their privacy policy!

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            4 hours ago

            Let me install some software on your devices and I’ll show you how to track searches without operating a search engine.