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YSK that Apple makes millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you should turn it off.
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this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2025
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The cool thing is that you can turn it off
Allegedly.
this isn’t an android. When you turn something off on an iPhone, it turns off.
In this case, perhaps. The problem is it’s what Apple offers, or nothing.
…I really, really miss my jailbroken iPhone. Honestly I would trade for a (working) iPhone 6 without even blinking.
I’m sorry to hear that an iPhone was somehow too difficult for you to use.
Best wishes ❤️
Thanks. I appreciate the condescending comment.
You get what you give
They gave more than condescention. Interesting that's all you read... Apple fanbois are almost as bad as Disney Adults... Ya'll sycophantic morons.
Apple doesn’t care about your feelings. Neither do I.
They just said they wish they could have an iPhone, and that it was jailbroken. Implying a power user who knows what they want (an iPhone) and how to use it. And this response wouldn't have been appropriate for almost any context, but in this one it's particularly nonsensical.
That is not what they said
If you have to lie in order to make your point, then you have lost the argument already
Yeah, ok. Last I checked, telling someone they didn't read correctly wasn't an argument. And you didn't read correctly. At all. Or maybe it's you who is lying? That would be explained by this comment being pure projection.
No, but all of the false claims you made certainly count as a lie.
And since you’re obviously quite skilled at selective omission, pick the part of this next phrase you like the most: eat me
lol, couldn't be prouder to not be in that cult with the likes of people like you.
Oh, the irony…
I'll pretend I'm what you imagine for a moment. ANDROID DOES ALL FINE THINGS, GOOGLE INNOCENT AND APPLE BAD BECAUSE DUMB REASON. Feel better?
lol
It literally says you will see an equal amount of ads, just not personalized.
Yeah, and the obvious benefit is that they aren’t harvesting my personal data to fuck me in the ass with ads.
You have chosen the “fuck me in the ass with ads” option. as someone who loves getting fucked in the ass, I tip my hat to you.
And you hallucinate that that somehow makes you better than me? Or that it’s the better choice?
I am not beholden to your hallucinations. I can actually make better choices for myself. I urge you to do the same.
Apple may harvest my personal data, but they never sell it. The worst with that that will ever happen. Is they use my personal data to sell me an iCloud subscription.
Those who make android? Their entire business structure relies on them selling your personal data. Which, of course, they can easily harvest from their custom operating system.
Anyone claiming that android is somehow more secure than iOS will never get anything but the deserved amount of ridicule
Damn, did someone shit in your lightning connector?
Google also doesn't sell your data, they just sell ad space. Just like Apple. The only thing different is that you believe Apple's marketing.
The only one here with a superiority complex is you.
And for your information, I use a custom ROM with everything of Google stripped out and every ad blocked on the kernel level. Try that with your ad-infested data-harvesting iphone.
This is the funniest thing I’ve heard all day
Lol yes because the trillion dollar corporation known as apple got there by being honest 🤣
If you have any evidence that could prove me wrong, you would have provided it already.
“MONEY=BAD” is a hilarious argument when you are arguing in favor of Google
Delusions
Hmm I didn't consider that I needed to list [every corporate action for the past 200 years]. Good point though. Next time.
Any word to do. No need to list all of them.
That’s how I know you’re full of shit: you couldn’t even provide a single one
How you know I'm full of shit is that your brain is set to "apple good" with no other priorities in the mix. What people like you don't realize is that I could literally not care less what you believe. The responses I leave here are for non-zombies reading the thread.
See, this is what a delusion is. You’re hallucinating things I never said, and imagining things I’ve never thought.
Because you cannot handle criticism. Sad.
lol
I don't agree with this. While they have stated its against their stores policies to use permanent identifiers instead of your IDFA, I haven't seen any stories of them actually enforcing said restriction. I've seen a lot of /them/ saying that they will and do, but I've never seen a story of a company saying they were disabled for it.
On top of that, they didn't forbid companies from using workarounds like a unique device fingerprint using your current device configuration for it either, so many apps just did that instead, which brought everyone back to square one again, they just switched to using a third party to identify the device instead of using apple's first party solution.
Privacy advocates actually warned that apples way of marketing this feature would do exactly what is occurring here. Giving users a false sense of privacy when really very little has changed.
I’m sorry to hear of your troubles. Best wishes.
We get it, you're paid by Apple.
Or, I hope someone sucking corporate cock like you do is getting paid at least,.
I’m going to save this comment as an excellent example of someone who is a “fanatic”. Someone who believes that the only way someone could disagree with them is if they were paid to do that.
The irony is lost on you.
Guess you're just a free corporate hoe after all. I feel sorry for you. Not even getting paid to lick those boots clean.
I’m sorry to hear of your troubles. Best wishes.