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Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI (www.theregister.com)

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I have never liked Apple and lately even less. F.... US monopolies

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Although this is terrible, once again a headline on lemmy made me paranoid only to find out that my phone probably doesn’t even support this.

Going through the settings and turning things off is second nature to me by now, it’s not unique to Apple (looking at your Microsoft).

What we need is an opt out mode on every device. Similar to the accept necessary cookies only, we need every device to let you fully opt out from everything it can when you boot it up for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I don't think it's fair to say "once again a headline on lemmy", by connotation you're vaguely suggesting Lemmy is responsible.

I'm a big settings person as well but honestly Apple is a fucking evil genius at hiding options in menus within menus. Plus this was an opt-change done randomly in the middle of "nobody knows", I don't check all of my settings and their subsequent menus daily for any changes being made.

I'm just flabbergasted by the whole apple industry though. Like it's obvious when a company wants to offer a new user experience (their newest innovative design!), and it's obvious when a company wants to only tailor to "Their preferred vision of what an apple user and their experience should be". No one asked for this shit, and it's being shoved down everyone's throats.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I still watch people walk into a Dollar General knowing how crappy that company acts and how much more costly everything is. We're all slowly being pigeon holed into a "unified user experience" and it's the shittiest outcome.