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Can we just not live in a fucking dystopian world ?
Has r/aboringdystopia made the move to federation?
"WONT SOMEONE STOP THIS DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE OF BEING ABLE TO SIGN UP FOR A BETA THAT IS ACTUALLY A BETA AND REQUIRES ACTUAL DATA COLLECTION (THAT I CAN ACTUALLY OPT OUT OF IF I DONT WANT TO PARTICIPATE) TO ACTUAL DO ITS ACTUAL BETA JOB OF IMPROVING THE SOFTWARE?! SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!11one!1"
Ah yes, it will stay a Beta for ever and data collected will always be only for improvement. This is 100% sure, tech history has always been this way. There is no possible way to turn this otherwise.
"I'm just gonna ignore the fact that I can opt out with a single click, and continue to be a dick about it, because admitting I'm wrong is not something I am willing to ever consider"
You don’t get what I’m saying at all.
Thing is, there are alternatives but people settle for cheap and convenient. Lots of people hate Apple because of some odd contrarian marketing reason. Apple doesn’t do this. Linux is another option. Both are hugely better for regular people than Windows.
Let’s be fair. Apple doesn’t do this quite so blatantly and egregiously, but they do it. They collect plenty of telemetry, and it’s getting harder to opt-out of/block it with their own chipsets.
Edit: I say this as an Apple user.
Mac even had special rules so firewalls (including Little Snitch) couldn’t block access to Apple’s own data collection servers.
Yeah. That’s some real bullshit. As soon as I can get functional Linux on my M1 Mac mini, I plan to.
Bunch of people I know (as an American) use Signal and Telegram along with iMessage. Your cousin sounds like a pretentious dickhead
Haha, the duality of the NYer. I’m also a NYer but upstate.
Yeah. Apple is super slimy. They just hide it better. I’d like to move away from Apple entirely, but I’m kinda stuck right now. I can’t afford to just get rid of perfectly good phones and tablets to try and replace them with better privacy options.
I do what I can to protect my privacy on apple devices, but I don’t trust them at all.
The tablet and mobile limitations really suck. I edit my photos on my iPad, (and privacy issues aside), I love the iPad for this, and don’t have any plans to abandon it.
I’d consider a pixel with graphene, but not until the phone I have dies/is unusable.
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I don’t trust apple at all