Dupree878

joined 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is absolutely no reason they can’t pass a federal law and then still allow states to have a more restrictive law. It is stupid to add a preemption barring more stringent laws.

But really no laws are strict enough against data harvesting companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s not worse than nothing for those of us stuck in backward ass Red states

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It would have to be super old. My 2015 and ‘16 iOS devices were fine. The only thing I had to remove was my 2010 white MacBook (which I just keep around to run home media anyway).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

It’s not automatically on, but after the update it pops up on your screen telling you it is now available and asking if you want to opt in or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I don’t understand why states can’t just have more stringent requirements and the federal one being the bare minimum

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Because Siri is the engine behind all voice commands to the phone. If you use voice to text, like I am right now, that relies on Siri. So you can turn off the search queries, but the engine still has to work if you want it to recognise your voice for anything, and it’s also the AI behind transcribing voicemails and voice memos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

DOJ needs to fuck off. Of people want to use an inferior product like android they’re free to, but nobody else should have to suffer for their bad decisions

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Apple really doesn’t advertise. The data never leaves apple. Everyone else sells your information.

“Apple… is the most privacy-conscious firm out there. Apple only stores the information that is necessary to maintain users’ accounts. This is because their website is not… reliant on advertising revenue. “

Source: https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/25/apple-collect-less-data-than-other-companies/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Apple doesn’t sell my data and information to third parties.

I don’t see how they have much ad revenue, because none of the Apple apps have ads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The MVNOs throttle and deprioritise in high traffic times too.

Also, throttling at 30GB is a lot Different than at 300GB which is what I went from on Visible to Verizon (visible is Verizon’s prepaid service, and it still worked like an MVNO by slowing down during the day and rush hour while Verizon clicked along streaming 4K)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Apple

It seems to get derided a lot here, but none of your data is harvested and tied to you or sold. It’s aggregated and anonymised if it’s sent off device, and I stopped using Proton drive when you could finally encrypt iCloud storage. I even use their email as default now since it’s not reading my messages and selling my info like outlook started doing.

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