• sus
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    3 days ago

    Realistically, why would Apple blow up a $3.3T global success for an extra $10M? That 1/330 of the company value

    Because they know that even after being caught harvesting user data for advertising, people will still claim they don’t do that even on a specialist privacy community on lemmy. Now think just how long it will take for the average apple user to realize it

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      3 days ago

      Yes. There was an issue with iOS 14.1 that enabled personalized ads by default if you didn’t restore from a backup. I was working for Apple at that time. It wasn’t intentional or malicious, and a hotfix was implemented as soon as the bug was identified. The lawsuit was just. Apple fucked up.