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Inside: Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/
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John Goerzen@pluralistic Cory Doctorow has some good thoughts here "even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product" and especially one of many recent debunkings of the "#Apple is good for #privacy" myth. https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/
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@jgoerzen @pluralistic The "#Apple is good for #privacy" myth alone has probably inspired countless Apple stans to shout at me how running UTM and AltStore on my iPad was so absolutely awful that I should buy an Android before Facebook gets the idea to let people just sideload their IPA.
Like, I get it, paying protection fees to the Mafia also keeps the Yakuza away, but we're still just funneling money into two different gangs.
Related note: people thinking Epic Games is a hero of decentralization because Tim Sweeney sued Apple.
Tim isn't angry that you can't sideload, he's angry that he's not big enough to run his own protection racket / games console. Remember that he's suing Google - not to unlock Android phones, but because he couldn't get Epic Games Store preloaded onto officially-blessed Android and nobody wanted to sideload it.