I'm from Amapá and as a kid (~30 years ago) I remember hearing "jo-ken-pô" a lot. Not anymore as an adult (people just say "pedra-papel-tesoura") but if you said jo-ken-pô I'm sure people would understand what you meant.
This implies collecting data for ad personalization is the only means through each Apple tracks you, which clearly isn't the case [1]. Some interesting keypoints posted here before: [2]
As it currently stands, there is no way to "opt out" of being tracked by Apple.
I find that hard to believe when so many of their devices' functionality depends on you sending data over to them. Unless you go out of your way to make sure you're blocking all your devices from phoning home or sending any data over to Apple, then any supposed privacy benefit becomes a lie.
Either you're the only owner of your data or your data is not, by definition, private to you.
I think this dogmatic take is pretty useless. For the vast majority of people icloud is a QoL increase that is worth not “owning” our data. All Apple does with our data is keep it safe (CSAM not included), but I would love to be proven wrong.
I don't think using the correct terms to avoid ambiguity is "dogma". It would be "pedantic" except the concern regards pretty much the essence of the issue, so that doesn't apply either.
I think your being pedantic. Dogma is fine usage. They argued that Apple isn’t a privacy-focused company because they store our data on their servers, while the bar for companies to protect our data is so low it’s a tripping hazard.
I think the larger problem is that Apple treats privacy as a double standard. They assist China's government in mass-surveillance of their citizens, while simultaneously airing "Privacy is a human right" ads in the United States. Once you factor in the horrific irony of Uighur slave labor building iPhones, I think it's pretty easy to understand how people can call their efforts 'security theater'.
I did this and was greeted with a prompt explaining said functionality and asking if I wanted to "Turn it on". There was another button beneath it with the option to "Skip". I clicked Skip to see what happens and all location info for every day I checked was empty ("No visits for this day").
So looks like this functionality is disabled by default. I don't recall ever using google maps on my phone before, let alone tweaking specific settings.
Might be true, don't forget for a minute that Apple is just as much "a horrible company, run by horrible humans." Nevertheless, Apple doing this because they want to increase their profits from AppStore purchases is definitely a good thing for end user privacy so it's a good conclusion.
