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  • loki@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    That is even worse, they knew they were compromising privacy and still boasts about being privacy centric. It’s like Saudi Arabia claiming to be a utopia while actively using modern slavery in the background.

    Apple and Google are both guilty of this. Frankly, however, neither of them are particularly “guilty”,

    Google doesn’t claim to be a herald of digital privacy, nor its users claim Google is a saint.

    • yolo@r.nfEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Apple users every time any criticism comes up

      Other companies do it too…

      Ya no shit, we know other companies are bad, however, keeping Apple at the pedestal no matter what is annoyingly cringe.

      • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The only argument I’ve ever heard is that Apple has comparatively better privacy practices than most companies we interact with. I frankly don’t think that argument is particularly unreasonable.

    • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Google doesn’t claim to be a herald of digital privacy, nor its users claim Google is a saint.

      I never did, nor would, claim either of things about Apple.