I‘m a little shocked rn. I am using fluffychat on ios since my legacy iphone is still working and I dont want to throw it out until its done.

But this happened the first time: I wrote „then I might need to take a taxi“ to someone and an installed taxi app immediately popped up via notifications saying „get off 25% today“ or something.

This freaks me out big time since it could mean every word I write on this phone gets checked by something/someone.

Anyone else? (It was literally the second I wrote the sentence)

  • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    114·
    7 months ago

    Yes, of course haha. Apple is as much of a data company as Google or Facebook, but they pretend to be privacy centric. Their “privacy” reputation comes from preventing apps from tracking your and limiting their data collection.

    This isn’t for the good of the consumer, it simply gives apple a monopoly on data of their customers, that they can sell for a pretty penny.

    If you want a truly privacy focused iPhone you likely have to jailbreak it. Either that or get an android phone and install graphene OS or other privacy centric off shoots of android OS.

    Remember, if a company owns the operating system, you’re being tracked. Happens just as much on windows and Mac. They’ll even track what you say, and give you recommendations based on that.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOP
      2·
      7 months ago

      As funny as this is to you, many are working on getting these corpos to back down. I already handed in a privacy complaint this month against apple which is currently being pursued by the State Office for Data Protection Supervision (a machine translated this).

      If this is actually something we can prove somehow, we‘re probably putting a new record for class action lawsuits in the guinness book.

      • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
        84·
        7 months ago

        Isn’t it a bit like how I ate a sandwich today? I know I ate a sandwich but there’s no proof of it. I am still allowed to talk about eating a sandwich even though there’s no proof. Did I mention how I ate a sandwich today?

        Also this is a bad example because I’m actually lying about the sandwich. I never ate a sandwich. But you get the point.