| ▲ | m463 3 hours ago |
| sound like they are trying. Unfortunately apple devices collect EXTREME amounts of telemetry, you are opted-in by default, and much of it is impossible to opt-out of. |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I so sorely lost faith in Apple when they started serving ads in Maps. I know they're trying to be privacy preserving. But a compromised value isn't a value, it's a guideline. |
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| ▲ | iambenm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The number of ads I have gotten lately about buying ads on Apple Maps has me glad I'm not using Apple Maps. It turns out they're just late to the ad game, not opposed to it. | |
| ▲ | spike021 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | what are you using for a Maps app if not Apple? Google is (probably) much worse and does pretty much all the same things. Even in nav mode it shows a bunch of sponsored pins like chain restaurants or stores. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > what are you using for a Maps app if not Apple? CoMaps. Though that's probably a bit hardcore for most people. At the end of the day, Google is worse. But Google has a better set of POIs. If Apple is throwing in the towel on privacy, I'm not sure the degrees matter as much as the difference in quality. |
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| ▲ | Citizen_Lame 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Privacy was simply a marketing scheme, not an actual conviction. |
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| ▲ | alehlopeh an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Apple is the only big tech company that is not EXTREMELY incentivized to sell your data. |
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| ▲ | m463 an hour ago | parent [-] | | not the same as collecting your data, especially with ads. |
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| ▲ | 90d 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sadly in current year, whenever tech companies say they aren't going to do something that means they are going to do it in two different ways and try to hide them both. |
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| ▲ | artisinal 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You can disable analytics sharing in the settings menu of iOS. |
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