EFF Calls Facebook's Criticism of Apple's Pro-Privacy Tracking Change 'Laughable'

[vtrautia]

Apple is doing the right thing

 

[dzankizakon]

They're so transparent it really is laughable, hilarious. Literally no one believes them.

They say small businesses will see 60% decrease in traffic from ads they're paying... if you really care about small businesses, then lower your prices by 60%, Facebook.

 

[ryanflanders256]

> the EFF believes that Facebook's campaign against Apple is really about "what Facebook stands to lose if its users learn more about exactly what it and other data brokers are up to behind the scenes,"

Right on!

> The EFF applauded Apple for its pro-privacy change, calling it a great step forward.

Agreed.

 

[theotherphil]

I wonder how many trackers are on this site? If only there were a way to find out.

 

[theotherphil]

I had my Apple first gen watch replaced after it got caught on something and the face popped off. I went to the store and told them I banged it and the face popped off. I said it was out warranty and I would like to repair it as long as it wasn’t too expensive otherwise I would wait to buy a new one in a month when series 3 was released.
They looked at it, said “that shouldn’t happen though. Let me write up a repair ticket, see what the cost would be, but I think they will replace it. See how the battery isn’t quite flat? That looks like a bad battery that caused pressure.”
Next day I got an email telling me the repair was done, no charge.
I picked it up and they said it was replaced with new as they don’t repair the watches and only were refurbing for resale.
Similar thing happened with an out of warranty refurbished iBook G4 14”. Genius bar authorized a replacement and I left with a new one.

Apple is so greedy...

I went to Apple with an iPhone 6, 18months out of warranty for a sticky home button. I was more than happy to pay for a repair, they swapped it out for a new phone on the spot - full retail packaging and everything, for free.

 

[Velli]

Actually that is clearly untrue if you need to use certain products or services. Many do not work without a dreaded app. Apple are as guilty if this as anyone. Do not use apps as a norm but I have to have a few and i hate it but there is no alternative sometimes. Applaud Apple, which is rare for me, but I do not absolve them from the being part of the over all problem

The premise for my statement was that the user I was quoting wishes there was a phone where apps don’t exist. I’m just pointing out that this wish is outright stupid.

 

[subjonas]

> the EFF believes that Facebook's campaign against Apple is really about "what Facebook stands to lose if its users learn more about exactly what it and other data brokers are up to behind the scenes,"

Right on!

> The EFF applauded Apple for its pro-privacy change, calling it a great step forward.

Agreed.

EFF yeah! 😆

 

[Tech198]

It's good to see EFF having a sense of humor at Facebook's expense.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Same. Not once. Most typically, ads annoy me and I think place a subconscious boycott flag in my brain.

The really bizarre fact though is that they do those ads because they work. But sometimes not completely.

I was at a seminar years ago and the presenter was warming up, and asked people if they had seen a particularly moronic insurance company commercial. The majority of the room admitted they had, to groans and looks of dislike. The presenter then popped up a slide with 5 names of corporations that the advert represented. The correct answer was chosen by a scant fraction of the attendees. Since then there has been more mergers so it might be easier to pick, but sometimes the advert makes a mark, but the conscious brain can't make the connection at least.

Tangent: America is supposedly the only country that lets drug companies advertise their products direct to consumers. Many of those commercials, aside from being totally disconnected from the pandemic, are filled with horrid sounding side effects. So is that really helping them? 'Yeah, doc, I want that drug they say kills people that take it. Yeah, the one that also causes severe diarrhea, bad breath, suicidal thoughts, itchy skin, watery eyes, hair loss, and lucid nightmares. I think that will fix me good as new!'

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

They're so transparent it really is laughable, hilarious. Literally no one believes them.

They say small businesses will see 60% decrease in traffic from ads they're paying... if you really care about small businesses, then lower your prices by 60%, Facebook.

It's ballsy, for sure. To be such a caustic dick and then cover yourself in white and lament the 'poor small businesses'.