Pench4ntSep 4, 2021
Alejandro

Google will pay Apple 15 billion dollars to remain default Safari search engine in 2021 on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

This is the price of your personal data, Apple users.

Google knows how to move strategically to know everything about you and this is temible.

If your privacy is important for you you should think twice about what devices and software you use on your daily basis.

#privacy

Sep 4, 2021 at 8:34amWeb
Show threadNeilSep 4, 2021

@alejandrobdn Let us not misrepresent this — it's the price of being the default, nothing else.

If privacy is important for you, change from the defaults!

Show threadsplaSep 5, 2021
@alejandrobdn no, it's not that bad. You can change the default search engine easily.
You can use an iPhone and send nothing to Google. @aral
Show threadAral BalkanSep 5, 2021
@spla @alejandrobdn Do you know how much that default is worth? $15 billion.
Show threadsplaSep 5, 2021
@aral it's good for Apple, not bad for their users @alejandrobdn
Show threadAlexandre Oliva (moved to @[email protected])Sep 6, 2021
> You can use an iPhone and send nothing to Google.
how could you possibly know that?
Show threadsplaSep 6, 2021
@lxo because I have one and I know what I'm doing
Show threadAlexandre Oliva (moved to @[email protected])Sep 6, 2021
cool, how do you monitor the data that goes out through the modem, while it pretends to be powered off?
Show threadsplaSep 6, 2021
@lxo my raspberry is serving DNS queries to all local network devices so is easy to monitor them.
When the iPhone is connected to wifi and gets a local IP from my router, if I have selected other search engine that the default one (Google), no traffic goes to or arrives from Google.
Show threadAlexandre Oliva (moved to @[email protected])Sep 6, 2021
ok, I can tell that you're trying, but... that doesn't really answer my question, does it? and if you really think it does, that would suggest you don't really know what you're doing.
essentially, you're trusting the system to not do things you don't expect it to do, and that it is only following your commands, but proprietary software doesn't usually work like that.
Show threadsplaSep 6, 2021
@lxo you are right and I don't know what I'm doing. Ok, have a nice day.