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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Why don’t you like Apple? (self.privacy)

submitted 5 months ago by Betawhat to c/[email protected]

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Real question. I would like to know what drives you to hate Apple? (In terms of privacy of course because in terms of price it’s another story).

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

            
              Closed software (and hardware if we count in house arm chips?) ecosystem is bad for security and privacy
Apple is subject to ancap US corporate law, which means they can realistically do whatever they want with your data (and it would be a bad business decision not to) with no real punishments/business expenses if they're caught
Large number of users increases interest for state backdoors
*BSD has mostly the same userland, is totally free, and open source