kaba0

joined 1 year ago
[–] kaba0@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

The average person buys a new device every 3 years.

[–] kaba0@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

It’s as much a “harm they put in place themselves” as website cookies are - these are technical artifacts that were maliciously used. It is just not arguing in good faith to claim they made it for tracking purposes - it’s like basic software development practice to create some unique IDs, and it has plenty useful roles.

[–] kaba0@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, google will return something for “covid is a hoax” as well, that doesn’t constitute a proof.

Also, from your very own article: “Broadly speaking, it collects a lot less information than Google or Facebook and has backed up its claims that it is privacy-focused”

[–] kaba0@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bullshit - what “research”? Apple is in no way comparable to goddamn Google and Facebook here. Their ad sector is pretty much “display my app in the AppStore search if they search for similar things” and things like that, that only uses the actual search term, and very basic stuff about the user. They can make relatively much money on that, because they artificially own the whole “Apple market”, so they don’t have any competition there. They don’t fingerprint you across the whole internet, that’s for sure.

[–] kaba0@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

No, it is usb-c - usb-c, like literally every phone produced in the last few years.

[–] kaba0@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Apple actually already sort of have it — you can go to settings and check whether any repairs/tampering happened on your device. That is I believe a correct approach - you can always check after a repair/second hand buy whether their claims are true, yet it is maximally usable.

[–] kaba0@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

How is it privacy friendly? Not trying to troll of anything, but people literally share all their likes/dislikes plainly with everyone, and deletes don’t have to actually be executed on other servers.

[–] kaba0@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That 44b had to be paid in real cash, not just the current theoretical value of the sum of his shares. He sold quite a lot of Tesla shares afaik to banks to give them a “small loan”.