Ah phew, thank God. Was afraid they wouldn't do this. /s
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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"Wants to". They are just testing the waters for a response.
I've been telling people for years that Apple is just better at marketing. They sell this image of better security and everything, but they are just big tech with a bigger smile and make up than the others.
You trust Apple? You fell for the lies.
This just pushes me closer to Motorola and GrapheneOS when it launches in a year or so.
Fuck Apple and seriously fuck Google.
No need to wait, get a secondhand pixel and enjoy GrapheneOS already.
I'm shocked! Shocked!! ... Well not that shocked
Simplest way to delete their userbase. They’re the last big Tech company that still has a semblance of respect for user privacy, if any.
No semblance, only a facade
Semblance. Are you saying that there are literally no privacy features? Privacy is a sliding scale, don’t gatekeep some certain level of privacy as “legitimate” and call everything else below that line fake, that’s disingenuous.
Compared to Google, Microsoft, etc, they are more respecting of privacy than other big tech companies.
Yes because they're sooooo transparent about how they handle you data. And they've NEVER lied before riiiiight?
It's not that they're fake for not being private enough, they're fake because of their long history of dishonesty and deceptive marketing. Or would you like to ask them what "current competing hardware" means on their next press release chart?
Apple was a cult of personality run by a snake oil salesman until jobs died. Now it's a shell of that, run by a board of investors. Why do people on communities like this, an ostensibly ant-capitalist community, still feel the need to defend them? It's always so weird to me.
They just pretend to be.
apple users will eat it up because "whoa look the ai is so much better now that it knows everything about me 😮😮😮"
They know people lack better alternatives, since all the other tech companies are doing the same.
They also know people don't care, because they continue patronizing those companies.
Yes, I’d imagine that would remove the incentive to stay within the ecosystem.
Paywalled. Archived link. While I have no love for Apple, and have audited their privacy claims for this and other privacy communities over the years, adding an opt-in toggle to allow anonymized data sharing for improved service does not seem like a “backflip” in privacy, any more than other user feedback channels would be.
But go ahead and downvote because I didn’t just roll with your Apple bad narrative, silly munchkins
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Doesn’t care at all about the truth, only casting reality to fit his pre-existing worldview
I'd only have to explain how that opt in is predatory, to be understood, to an apple apologist like you
I'd only have to explain how that opt in is predatory, to be understood, to an apple apologist like you
Did you mean to compliment Apple apologists and me or did you mean something else?