Unfortunately I think we have seen that case with Facebook. I think that people seriously just don't care.
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There's Still No Sign of Privacy Labels for Most Google iOS Apps
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You are not necessarily wrong but Apple cannot do the check for every app themselves, that would literally take years.
But I don't think Google would risk it, they know that if they anger Apple they will lose their Apple Developer Membership - even if it's temporary that would hurt them. Chaos ensued at Facebook HQ after they lost their access back in 2019.
You won't hear it from them, you'll see it if you go to the page in the App Store for the Facebook app.
Apple doesn’t need to. You know there are going to be a ton of people just waiting to spot check on google the same way they did with Facebook.
I think a lot of the efficacy of privacy labels will have to come from community policing. We are all going to have to be part of the change we want to see.
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ominous and nefarious at the same time.
I know on the Mac I object to some things google wants:
1) full disk access for updater
2) automation for system events for updater
3) accessibility control your computer for updater
4) camera and microphone for chrome
5) bluetooth for Chrome
Which hey, maybe they all need (except I turned access off and things are working just fine). suspicious much?
I know on the Mac I object to some things google wants:
1) full disk access for updater
2) automation for system events for updater
3) accessibility control your computer for updater
4) camera and microphone for chrome
5) bluetooth for Chrome
Which hey, maybe they all need (except I turned access off and things are working just fine). suspicious much?
Generally true but I suspect people are slowly becoming aware and distrustful as more and more things are bright to their attention. Still, it won’t change much until something big happens that affects them like the Equifax disaster a few years ago.
If this isn't a matter of Apps still being in review and revision, Google should be booted from the App Store until such time they are in compliance in every regard.
Apple doesn't have the tech guts to be consistent with Google.
Apple doesn't have the tech guts to be consistent with Google.
Came here to say exactly this haha. As loud as many of the commenters are in these tech forums, I sadly don’t think the mass public will notice/care because the trade off of convenience is just too great.
but yes, the longer they hold out the more clickbait articles will come out pointing their fingers at Google. Which would allow more “commonfolk” to get wind of it. Not to mention the DOJ who are currently suing Google over antitrust issues.. haha
Fine with me. I hate downloading these weekly updates that offer nothing. They use vague descriptions like “bug fixes” and “improvements” well what bugs were fixed?
What improved. Why is YouTube a 100+MB download every week? It’s a video player, not a game.
What improved. Why is YouTube a 100+MB download every week? It’s a video player, not a game.
Yep. Google is actually very careful with user data, but they might as well not be cause nearly nobody cares, and those who do will criticize them no matter what. These privacy features seem entirely driven by geeks and not average people's desires.
I'm sick of clicking/scrolling through all that meaningless privacy agreement stuff; wish there were a universal "just take whatever data I give you, sell it even, idgaf" button. Even if I cared and wanted to read through it, I'd not trust what they say about their closed-source clients and hidden away backends. Mic/camera/etc permissions are true security, a different matter, and I'm glad for them. If I want privacy, I use something provable like Signal or my own project.
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The large number of users Signal gained recently is a small number to WhatsApp. But I would love for that to become a big number to WhatsApp too.
I highly doubt it, because people don't even know their free iCloud account comes with an email address. Unlike Gmail, iCloud emails even come with support when you don't know how to do something. Pretty much everyone uses Gmail for email accounts.
I use my iCloud email for everything, and my email address still ends in @Mac.com, and I will not have anything to do with, and refuse to use Gmail. I have never had a Gmail account, and never wanted one. I remembered the whole 1GB free thing they did with the invites, and of course, even back then they said they had bots crawling through your email and showed ads. Back then nobody cared, and nobody will care, or they will only pretend to care now. I saw this from years ago, and still refuse to this day to use a Gmail account.
The thing that is ultra scary is that many businesses use Gmail (not G Suite, but a run of the mill Gmail account) which can contain private client information, such as a small doctors office, or lawyers office.
If this isn't reason enough to wean yourself off Google products as soon as possible I don't know what is. There are great replacements for almost all google services. With the exception of YouTube, to which you can do as I do, and create a Google account exclusively for YouTube (and nothing else) using a non-google email.
That is exactly what I have done. I have used my main Apple email address though, and now I am wondering if I should have created a throwaway instead.
